NEW RACES OF ANTELOPES FROM 

 BRITISH EAST AFRICA 



By EDMUND HELLER 



NATURALIST SMITHSONIAN AFRICAN EXPEDITION 



The present paper deals with mammal material in the United 

 States National Museum from collections made by the Smithsonian 

 African Expedition under the direction of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 

 the Paul J. Rainey African Expedition, and the Abbott Expedition to 

 Kilimanjaro. In addition to this material the Field Museum of 

 Chicago has loaned the National Museum the collection of antelopes 

 gathered by Carl E. Akeley in British East Africa. The writer is 

 indebted to the Field Museum for the privilege of describing from 

 their material the new race of pygmy antelope from Mt. Kenia. 



NESOTRAGUS MOSCHATUS AKELEYI, new subspecies 



Kenia Pygmy Antelope 



Type from the southeast slope of Mt. Kenia, altitude 7,000 feet, 

 British East Africa; adult female, Cat. No. 17824, Field Museum of 

 Chicago ; collected by Carl E. Akeley ; date not known ; original 

 number, 342. 



Characters. — Body color much darker than Nesotragus moschatus, 

 the dorsal region chestnut brown, the white of the throat separated 

 medially for half its length by a fulvous band ; legs darker with black 

 pasterns and stripe in front to knee ; pelage long, hair on rump 30 mm. 

 long. 



Coloration. — Median dorsal area of body chestnut brown, changing 

 on lower sides to vinaceous-tawny ; legs ochraceous-tawny, the past- 

 erns fuscous, a black stripe in front to the knees ; tail fuscous, some- 

 what darker than the body, below marked by a narrow white line. 

 Crown of head bay, the snout with a broad streak of fuscous, a small 

 white spot above the eye ; cheeks vinaceous-tawny in contrast to the 

 white lips, chin and throat ; back of ears fuscous ; inner side and base 

 whitish. Middle throat with a broad band four inches long, of vina- 

 ceous-tawny separating the white of the upper and lower throat. 

 Under parts white with a streak of white down the inside of each leg 

 to the knee. 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections,Vol. 61, No. 7 



