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hair brown without a definite collar, short haired to the white bar on 

 lower throat where the long olive hair of body begins abruptly ; upper 

 throat with a large median white spot. Crown of head and snout 

 olive-brown, the latter without white chevrons ; sides of head ochra- 

 ceous-tawny ; cheeks below eye marked by two large white spots ; 

 upper lips, chin and forethroat white ; back of ears olive-brown, the 

 tips becoming seal-brown, inside and base whitish. The adult female 

 has the sides of the body bright ochraceous-tawny with the median 

 area much darker, cinnamon-brown through the center of which ex- 

 tends a thin white dorsal mane from withers to tail ; sides of body 

 marked with 6 or 7 transverse white stripes, the anterior ones being 

 the longest ; lower sides with a line of white spots and hindquarters 

 with about a dozen similar spots irregularly arranged. Breast buffy 

 lighter than the sides ; belly white. Legs bright-tawny with white 

 areas arranged as in the male. Tail showing much more white below 

 than that of the male, only the median dorsal line being cinnamon 

 like the body color. Collar on neck more distinctly marked than in 

 the male. Crown of head bright rufous, the snout dorsally olive- 

 brown with narrow white chevrons from eye to snout, rest of head 

 colored as in the male. 



Measurements in the flesh. — Head and body, 1120; tail, 200; hind- 

 foot, 365 ; ear, 142. Skull adult but not aged, the first premolar only 

 showing wear ; condylo-basal length, 228 ; greatest breadth, 95 ; 

 length of upper tooth row, 66 ; gnathion to tooth row, 66 ; length of 

 bulla?, 2,7', height of bullae above basioccipital, 13; nasals, 80x20; 

 length of premaxillse, 57. Length of horns on curve of keel, 12 

 inches. 



The race here described inhabits the edge of the Taru Desert and 

 the moist coast strip from Kilimanjaro northward at least as far as 

 the Tana River. It is a decidedly lighter colored race than either 

 massaicus or delamerei and is readily distinguishable by its lack of 

 any rufous coloration in the male. 



AMMELAPHUS IMBERBIS AUSTRALIS, new subspecies 

 East African Lesser Kudu 



Type from Longaya water, Marsabit district, British East Africa ; 

 adult female, Cat. No. 182073, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; collected by Marius 

 A. Johnston, July 21, 191 1. (Original No. 2380.) 



Characters. — Resembling AmmelapJius imberbis of Somaliland 

 closely but differing by darker coloration, absence of the white spot 

 on front of pasterns on the forelegs and shorter horns. 



