546 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



The dorsal color is ochraceous-buff, speckled very lightly 

 by narrow dusky vermiculations to the hair. The under- 

 parts are white, with the breast showing, but a slight ten- 

 dency toward the ochraceous color of hindei. The legs are 

 buffy, like the body, but lack the darker vermiculation and 

 are from the fetlocks to the hoofs solid fuscous-brown, this 

 color being continued upward in front as an indefinite darker 

 leg stripe. The tail is marked by a median black dorsal 

 stripe, the sides and under-surface being white, in sharp 

 contrast, and the tip mixed black and white. The head 

 is ochraceous, marked by a broad seal-brown or black median 

 stripe from the muzzle to the horn bases. The lips, chin, 

 and forethroat are white, the chin being marked on the 

 sides by two faint drab spots representing the blackish 

 patches of hindei. The eyelashes and anteorbital stripe are 

 black. The ears on the back are covered by a short scattered 

 growth of ochraceous hair, but their general color tone is 

 brownish, due to the dark skin showing through, while the 

 inner side and the base are white. The throat and the nape 

 are ochraceous-buff and slightly darker than the body. 



The body size and proportions are quite as in the Athi 

 bush duiker. The horns of the type specimen are ^yi 

 inches in length by 25 s inches in spread at the tips. They 

 are directed upward from the dorsal profile of the skull at 

 an angle of 130 degrees. Besides the Voi specimens, others 

 were secured at Maji ya Chumvi and Mariakani Stations 

 on the Uganda Railway. Deserti is a lowland race occupy- 

 ing the Taru Desert as far east as the edge of the cocoa-palm 

 zone fringing the coast. 



Subfamily Nesotragince 



We have in this group antelopes of small or diminutive 

 size and of somewhat diverse characters, such as the pygmy 

 sunis and royal antelopes, the oribis and the steinboks. 

 They agree in having the anteorbital gland of large size 

 and opening on the face by a rounded pore, in having rudi- 

 mentary tails, and in the small size of the horns, which are 

 confined to the male sex. The pelage is of normal texture. 



