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brownish-drab band encircling the hoofs and covering the 

 whole pastern region, while a stripe of the same color ex- 

 tends to the knees on the forelegs. The outside of the ears 

 is dark, and covered by minute scattered cinnamon hairs, 

 the tips showing no darker borders. The inside of the ears 

 is clothed by long white hairs. 



The flesh measurements of an adult male from Rhino 

 Camp are: head and body, 31 }4 inches; tail, 4.J4 inches; 

 hind foot, 10 inches; ear, ^H inches. The basal length of 

 the skull from the condyles to the tip of the snout is 53^ 

 inches. Three male specimens are in the National Museum 

 collection, two of them from Rhino Camp and the third 

 from Butiaba, a port on the northeast shore of the Albert 

 Nyanza. The maximum horn measurements in these spec- 

 imens are: length, straight, 33^ inches; spread at the tips, 

 ij/i inches. 



Uganda Bush Duiker 



Sylvicapra grimmia nyansa 



Sylvicapra abyssinica nyansa Neumann, 1905, Sitz.-Ber. Ges. Nat. Freu., 

 Bed., p. 89. 



Range. — From the southern limits of the Vfctoria 

 Nyanza drainage northward through Uganda and the 

 Elgon highlands as far as the latitude of Nimule; east- 

 ward over the Mau Escarpment of British East Africa to 

 the western edge of the Rift Valley. 



Oscar Neumann described the Uganda bush duiker in 

 1905 from some flat native skins which he obtained in 1893 

 from the Kavirondo of the Kisumu district of British East 

 Africa. It is one of the small-eared races, resembling the 

 Nile race in this respect, but may be distinguished from 

 the latter by its larger body size, more ochraceous colora- 

 tion, and darker-brown color of the pastern region of the feet. 

 Specimens have been examined in the National Museum 

 from the Uasin Gishu Plateau collected by the Smithsonian 

 African expedition. Powell-Cotton collected specimens 

 north of Mount Elgon and also in the Kedef Valley east 

 of Nimule, which represent the northern limits of this race. 

 An adult female from the Uasin Gishu Plateau gives the 

 following flesh measurements: head and body, 38 inches; 



