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some two inches shorter, while the horns average more 

 than twelve inches less in length. The black coat though 

 assumed is less intense, only the tips of the hair being seal- 

 brown with the basal part of the hair bright-rufous which 

 shows through the coat readily when disturbed. In old 

 males from Mashonaland the hair is uniformly dark seal- 

 brown to the roots. 



The general color of the male is seal-brown. The face 

 has a median seal-brown stripe from the horn bases to the 

 end of the snout, bordered on either side by a white stripe 

 commencing above the eye, passing along a ridge in front 

 of it where the hairs are somewhat longer, and running down 

 to the upper lip; another seal-brown stripe runs from below 

 the eye forward to the nose on either side, but the rest of 

 the face, upper and lower lips, and chin are white. The 

 crown of the head is like the back. The ears are white inside, 

 tawny-rufous posteriorly and tipped with seal-brown. A 

 dorsal mane runs from the level of the ears to the middle of 

 the back. The belly, inside of upper part of hind legs, and 

 rump are pure white, and sharply contrasted with the color of 

 the back. The tail is seal-brown and ends in a long black 

 tuft. 



The female has the snout medially black from its tip to 

 the base of the horns, the black separated from the rhinarium 

 and horn bases by a narrow band of reddish-brown. A 

 black stripe encloses the eye and extends from the base of 

 the horns to the upper lip midway between the angle and 

 the tip of the snout. The hairs covering the anteorbital area 

 are creamy-white, set off from the rest of the face by their 

 whiteness and greater length, and merging rather abruptly 

 into the buffy stripe which extends forward to the tip of the 

 snout. The cheeks and throat below the dark ocular stripe 

 are whitish. The sides of the head and neck posterior to the 

 eye, including the base and the outside of the ear, are light 

 chestnut, like the general body color. The inside and margin 

 of the ear conch are white, and the tip has short, dark-brown 

 tufts. The whole dorsal region, including the head, is tawny- 

 rufous, darkest dorsally, and slightly lighter on the sides, 

 where it extends well down and is sharply defined against 

 the white under-parts. The neck is clothed with a well- 

 developed mane, which extends from the ears posteriorly to 



