558 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



Horns heavily ringed for half their length cottoni 



Coat dull, cinnamon-brown; horns well ringed aquatoria 



Tail black; contrasting conspicuously with the dorsal coloration 

 Coat ochraceous-tawny, long; horns not compressed or keeled 



kenya 



Coat clay color or bufF, short; horns compressed and furnished with 

 a keel on the posterior side haggardi 



Abyssinian Oribi 

 Ourebia montana montana 



Native Name: Abyssinian, /ac^a. 



Antilope mo7itana Cretzschmar, 1826, Atl. RiippeU's Reise, Saug., p. 11, 

 pi. III. 



Range. — Nile watershed of the Abyssinian highlands, as 

 far east as the edge of the Nile lowlands and south to the 

 headwaters of the Omo River and the highlands north of 

 Lake Rudolf. 



The Abyssinian oribi has been known since RiippeU's 

 early explorations in Abyssinia. The type specimen was 

 obtained by one of his collectors on the Fazogloa Moun- 

 tains, in close proximity to the Blue Nile, well down in the 

 foot-hill region of the Abyssinian highlands and at the ex- 

 treme western limit of its range. Riippell also met with it 

 on the plateau region at elevations of six thousand feet or 

 more. More recently Major Powell-Cotton collected speci- 

 mens near the western edge of the highlands, west of Addis 

 Abbaba and Lake Tana. The Abyssinian race resembles 

 closely the Uasin Gishu race in color. Both are highland 

 forms, having long, heavy coats of a bright, tawny color. 

 The Abyssinian may be distinguished by its less heavily 

 ringed and shorter horns. The horns are ringed for the 

 basal third, the rings being quite low and less distinct than 

 in the more southern race. The horn length averages four 

 inches, which is one-half inch less than the Uasin Gishu race. 

 From the Nile oribi this race may be recognized by its 

 brighter color and longer hair, but resembles it closely in 

 horn dimensions. Gilbert Blaine has recently described 

 a new race founded on a specimen collected by W. N. 



