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Kenia highland race in the wide separation on the throat 

 of the white areas of the upper and lower throat by a dark 

 collar or bridge of the dorsal color of the nape, but differs 

 by having the dorsal coloration decidedly rufous and 

 grizzled rather than blackish or fuscous. 



Kenia Pygmy Antelope 



Nesotragus moschatus akeleyi 



Nesotragus moschatus akeleyi Heller, 1913, Smith. Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 7, 

 p. I. 



Range. — Highland forest area of Mount Kenia, the 

 Aberdare Range, and the Kikuyu Escarpment south as far 

 as Nairobi or Ngong. 



The Kenia race was described from specimens collected 

 by Carl E. Akeley from elephant pits in the depths of the 

 forest on the southwestern slope of the mountain between 

 the altitudes of six thousand and seven thousand feet. This 

 race haunts only the deep forest and is quite as shy and 

 elusive as the bushbuck. They feed by browsing on leaves 

 and twigs and live a solitary life in the undergrowth flank- 

 ing the forest streams. When flushed from such covert 

 they bound away at great speed, twisting about among the 

 trees and never stopping until well within the security of 

 thick undergrowth. They are not known to utter any note 

 of alarm. The race may be distinguished by the body color, 

 which is much darker than moschatus, the dorsal region 

 being chestnut-brown, and the white of the throat being 

 separated medially for half its length by a fulvous band. 

 The legs are darker, with blacker pasterns, and striped in 

 front to the knee. The pelage is longer, the hair on the 

 rump being one and one-fourth inches long. 



The median dorsal area of the body is chestnut-brown, 

 changing on the lower sides to vinaceous-tawny. The legs 

 are ochraceous-tawny, and the pasterns fuscous, with a black 

 stripe in front to the knees. The tail is fuscous, and some- 

 what darker than the body, and is marked below by a nar- 

 row white line. The crown of the head is bay. The snout 

 is marked by a broad streak of fuscous, and a small white 

 spot above the eye. The cheeks are vinaceous-tawny in 



