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dirty greyish, continues on the flanks whereas the back is darker, 

 more grizzled with narrower whitish rings to the dark brown hairs. 

 Tiie hams are like the back, and the lower parts of the legs are dull 

 buffish grey. The pasterns are brownish black, but there is hardly 

 but a slight indication of a dark stripe just above the pasterns. The 

 chin is blackish with a central white stripe, the throat and fore 

 neck is a pale shade af « dark favvn » (307.1), the chest similar but 

 more dull and a little greyish , the belly and inside of limbs 

 gresish white. The whole animal makes the impression of being 

 very dark for a Bush-Duiker. The most striking feature is, however, 

 the thick and long fur. The hairs of the upper neck are about 

 40 mm. (in iiya7isœ about 15-18), further back on the neck about 

 33 mm., on the back about 35-37 mm. (in nyansœ 22-23), o" "^^e 

 rump 37-42 mm. (in nyansœ 24). In addition to this the fur is, of 

 course, also very much thicker. 



Total length of skull (') 152 mm. 



Basallength of skull 132 » 



Preorbital length 74 » 



Upper molar séries 46 » 



Zygomatic breadth 75.5 » 



As the spécimen is a fuUgrown maie with even ni" worn thèse 

 measurements indicate a small and short-nosed race. The latter 

 characteristic can also be proved by adding still another measure- 

 ment viz. the distance between first premolar and tip ot pre- 

 maxillae, which is only about 45 mm. 



It lies near at hand to compare this Alpine Bush-Duiker with 

 Hellers s. g. altivallis which lives under similar conditions on 

 the top of the Aberdare Range. The latter is, however, conside- 

 rably larger with the total length of the skull not less than 168 and 

 basai length 148 mm., and distance from first premolar to tip of 

 premaxillœ 52 mm. 



It is no doubt that this peculiar race, which lives on the summit 



(') Suniewhai approxiniate as bkull not quite clean. 



