554 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



The dorsal color of an adult male is bright cinnamon- 

 rufous, the median area being only slightly darker, or hazel. 

 The sides are cinnamon-buff, contrasting very little with the 

 white under-parts. The legs are ochraceous-buff, lighter and 

 brighter than the sides, and the pasterns are fuscous. The 

 tail is grayish in effect, the sides and the under-surface being 

 white, and the tip and the dorsal stripe fuscous. The crown 

 of the head is cinnamon-rufous, bordered below by a whitish 

 supraocular stripe. The midline of the snout and the orbital 

 area are dusky. The cheeks and the sides of the head are cin- 

 namon-rufous. The upper lips, chin, and throat are white, 

 but the middle of the throat has the white areas separated by 

 a narrow band of fulvous one inch wide. The ears are dusky 

 on back, like the snout, and the inner side and base are 

 whitish. The under-parts are silky-white, with a white stripe 

 extending down the inner side of each leg to the knee. The 

 sexes are alike in color. 



Measurements of an average adult in the flesh: head and 

 body, 223^ inches; tail, ^}<l inches; hind foot, 6yi inches; 

 ear, 2^ inches. Greatest length of skull, 4>^ inches. Horns 

 of an adult male, 2}i inches long by if^ inches spread. 



Kilimanjaro Pygmy Antelope 



Nesotragus moschatus kirchenpaueri 



Native Name: Wachaga, sinii (Abbott). 



Nesotragus kirchenpaueri Pagenstecher, 1885, Jahr.-Ber. Mus., Hamburg, II, 

 p. 36. 



Range. — Highland forest area of Mount Kilimanjaro 

 ranging down to three thousand feet. 



Doctor G. A. Fischer during his explorations on Kili- 

 manjaro in 1883 secured the type specimen of the species 

 which Pagenstecher later named kirchenpaueri. In 1888 

 Doctor Abbott obtained an immature male from the natives 

 while at Taveta. These two specimens represent all the 

 available material from Kilimanjaro. The type is an adult 

 mounted male in the Hamburg Museum, where it has been 

 examined. It is somewhat darker than Abbott's specimen, 

 but shows the same extensive white areas on the throat and 

 the dark pasterns which characterize this race. 



