372 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



chest. The top of the snout from the interorbital region to 

 the muzzle and far down on the sides to the lower level of 

 the eyes is deep-black, the blackness at the muzzle spread- 

 ing down around the mouth and uniting with the black 

 chin. The upper lips are whitish at the tip of the snout and 

 clove-brown on the sides. The sides of the head are drab- 

 gray, like the neck, with a lighter streak bordering the black 

 face blaze from the eye to the angle of the mouth. The crown 

 is seal-brown and shows some contrast to the black fore- 

 head. The back of the ears is black and united with the 

 dark-brown patch by a narrow ridge of color, but the rest of 

 the base and the inside is pale drab-gray. Some males show 

 a definite walnut-brown band across the forehead between 

 the eyes, while others are marked by short, white chevrons 

 similar to the specimen collected by R. J. Cuninghame on 

 the Loita Plains and referred to by Lydekker in his '*Game 

 Animals of Africa." The female differs in color from the male 

 by having the crown and interorbital region lighter-bistre or 

 drab-brown in contrast to the black snout and lacking the 

 black color on the chest, shoulders, and lower sides which are 

 drab-gray, in conformity with the back. The legs are also 

 lighter, being, as a rule, little darker than the drab body. 

 The throat mane is shorter and more scanty than in the male. 

 All of these color differences are also shared by the imma- 

 ture males. The newly born young, before the horns have 

 started to bud, are much lighter-colored than the female. 

 The body is at this age uniform vinaceous-buff with whitish 

 or cream-buff under-parts and legs. The mid-dorsal line 

 of the nape and back is marked by a short black mane 

 from the occiput to the rump. The whole top of the head 

 from the ears to the tip of the snout and well down on the 

 sides below the eyes is quite uniform blackish or deep seal- 

 brown, in this respect resembling the adult male. The chin 

 is black as in the adult. The sides of the head, throat, and 

 neck are vinaceous-buff like the body. The ears are wholly 

 black on the back and whitish on the inside. The tail is 

 like the body in color and only black at the tip. 



The flesh measurements of this race agree closely with 

 those of typical albojubatus, although the skull averages 

 }4 inch less in greatest length. The horns average 22 

 inches in greatest spread which is somewhat less than those 



