612 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



buff-pink like the sides of the body with the exception of 

 the knee-brushes on the forelegs, which are usually blackish 

 centrally and very conspicuous. The color of the body is 

 continued on to the tail as a narrow crest of cinnamon hair 

 to the black tufted tip. The under-surface of the tail is 

 quite hairless. The crown is bright rufous from the horn 

 bases to the tip of the snout, the red color merging 

 gradually on the sides to the buff-pink. Above the eye 

 is a conspicuous white stripe from the horn base to 

 well in front of the eye. The region below the eye is also 

 whitish, as well as the lips, chin, and a- median stripe extend- 

 ing down the centre of the throat a short distance. The 

 back of the ears is like the sides, buff-pink, and the inside 

 is marked by a few diagonal rows of long white hairs. The 

 female differs in coloration from the male by having a dark- 

 brown or blackish patch on the crown and by dark tips 

 and backs to the ears. The young have the dark crown 

 patch of the female and are quite like their female parent in 

 coloration. 



The dimensions of an adult male in the flesh were: head 

 and body, 50 inches; tail, 11 inches; hind foot, 17 inches; 

 car, 5^ inches. The largest male skull in a series of eight 

 is 9^ inches in greatest length. An adult female skull 

 measures S}i inches. Horns measuring 14 inches in length 

 are not rare in British East Africa. The record is not 

 greatly in excess of this average, being only 16 inches. 

 The Somaliland record only exceeds this by one inch. A 

 series of nineteen specimens from the Northern Guaso 

 Nyiro are in the National Museum, collected by the Roose- 

 velt and Rainey expeditions. These represent localities 

 along the middle course of the river and northward in the 

 desert near Mount Marsabit. Donaldson Smith has shot 

 specimens much farther north at the north end of Lake 

 Rudolf and others east of the lake on the headwaters of 

 the Juba River. The southern limits of the range are 

 marked by specimens shot in German East Africa by Schil- 

 lings on the Pangani River south of Kilimanjaro. Hunter 

 met with the gerenuk near Lake Jipe, southeast of Kil- 

 imanjaro and also on the Tana River. Jackson records 

 it as abundant on the coast at Merereni, north of the Sabaki 

 River. 



