570 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



owing to the narrow white hair tips. The sides of the body 

 are somewhat Hghter, but the dorsal color is sharply defined 

 against the white breast and belly. The legs are less pink- 

 ish than the body, usually being uniform cinnamon-buff, 

 with the inside white as far down as the knees and hocks. 

 The tail is very short, triangular in shape, and not differen- 

 tiated by color or length of hair from the rump. The lower 

 surface is naked. The hinder surfaces of the thighs are white 

 in contrast to the sorrel sides, the hair on this portion of 

 the body being lengthened considerably and forming a rump 

 patch. The crown of the head is bright tawny, and is 

 marked by a narrow, dark-brown crescent between the ears. 

 The midline of the snout is marked by a triangular-shaped, 

 seal-brown patch which extends from the muzzle half-way 

 to the eyes. The sides of the head are vinaceous, and the 

 eye is surrounded by a white ring. The lips, chin, and upper 

 throat are white. The ears are grayish, margined narrowly 

 by dark-brown; the back covered by short, buffy hair, and 

 the inside by lines of long, white hair. 



Specimens in the flesh average 33 inches in length of 

 head and body; tail, 2>^ inches; hind foot, 10 inches; ear, 

 4>^ inches. Length of skull, 5>^ inches. The largest skull 

 in a series of forty specimens is that of a female, which has a 

 length of 53^ inches. The horns average about 3^ inches in 

 length. The record in the National Museum is a specimen 

 with horns 5 inches in length, shot by Sir Alfred Pease at 

 his farm in the Mua Hills. Ward's record for British East 

 Africa exceeds this specimen by J4, of an inch. 



The steinbok is very abundantly distributed over the 

 high veldt region of British East Africa, but does not occur 

 in the dry desert scrub of the nyika. The vertical range 

 extends from three thousand to nine thousand feet. Speci- 

 mens have been examined from the Kapiti and Loita Plains, 

 northern slopes of Mount Kenia, Lake Naivasha, and the 

 Kedong Valley. The steinbok is peculiarly uniform in col- 

 oration throughout its range and is not separable into ge- 

 ographical races in British East Africa. 



