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This antelope is distinguished by its comparatively 

 small horns, which are annulated, curved forward at the 

 tips and usually about six inches long. The females 

 arc hornless. They have a large bare glandular patch 

 below their long ears. A good sized buck weighs 

 about 70 11)8. 



Waterbuck (Cobus ellipxiprymnus). 



Reedbuck have a tawny yellow coat which makes 

 it very difficult to distinguish them among the long dry 

 grass in which they live, and move about like phantoms. 

 They are as active among the rocks as a chamois on a 

 mountain and wonderfully alert. We found them very 

 abundant about Lake Nakuru and on the slopes of 

 Menengai (see p. 169). They occur in groups of four 

 or five. 



In 1895 a new species was described and named 

 C'. chanleri after Mr. Astor Chanler, who sent 

 home the skin which Mr. Rowland Ward considered to 



