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inches. The horns of an average male are 25 Inches long, 

 those of a female about 20 inches. The record horns for East 

 Africa, recorded by Ward, are 29^ inches. The largest male 

 skull in a series of three measured lyyi inches in length. 



Nile Roan 

 Egoceros equinus bakeri 



Native Names: Sudani, abu araf; Dinka, anoum. 



Hippotragus bakeri Heuglin, 1863, Nov. Act. Leop. XXX, pi. II, p. 16. 



Range. — Nile watershed from Uganda northward to the 

 Atbara River and westward throughout the Bahr-el-Ghazal 

 province, extending westward to the base of the Elgon high- 

 lands, west coast of the Victoria Nyanza, and northwest shore 

 of Lake Rudolf. 



Sir Samuel Baker met with the roan which now bears 

 his name on the plains of the Atbara, in Kassala, and south- 

 ward along the Abyssinian frontier as far as the Latooka or 

 Acholi country in northern Uganda. He mentions in "Is- 

 mailia" the antelope as being new and compares it to the 

 roan of South Africa, but the differences which he gave were 

 merely fancied, the race really being scarcely distinguish- 

 able from the typical one. Heuglin, the describer of the 

 race, had only seen the animal on one occasion in the field 

 owing to the extremely local character of its distribution. 

 The distinctness of the Baker roan has, indeed, been much 

 overestimated, chiefly due to the ears having been described 

 as fringed or tufted, a character which they do not possess. 

 In the headwaters of the Bahr-el-Ghazal drainage the roan 

 was recorded as early as 1870 by Doctor Schweinfurth and 

 again some years later by Doctor Junker. The most east- 

 ern records are based on specimens obtained by W. N. 

 McMillan's expedition to the Boma country northwest of 

 Lake Rudolf, on the headwaters of the Sobat River. 



In general shade of color this race closely resembles 

 langheldi as well as the typical roan of South Africa. The 

 whitish or buffy color of the front of the pasterns, the 

 smaller size and lighter color of the dark chest patch, and 

 the somewhat lighter ears alone serve to distinguish the race. 

 The fringed or tufted character assigned to the ears has 

 been found wanting in all the specimens examined. In 



