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however, longer than in annectens and is, no doubt, one of 

 the distinguishing characters of the race. The horns of an 

 adult female collected by Doctor Abbott are 29^^ inches 

 long, which is only a few inches less than Ward's record of 

 33>? inches for the race. 



The fringed-eared is a much more local race than the 

 northern. It is found locally near the Taita Hills, near 

 Lake Jipe, at Useri on the east slope of Kilimanjaro, near 

 Makindu on the Uganda Railway, again far eastward on 

 the coast at Merereni. In the Rift Valley it is found just 

 south of Mount Suswa in the latitude of Nairobi, again at 

 Lakes Magadi and Natron, and thence in isolated localities 

 in German East Africa at Lake Manyara and in Ugogo, 

 where it reaches its extreme southern limit. 



