NO. 13 NEW ANTELOPES AND CARNIVORES 3 



Coloration. — Dorsal color bright ochraceous-tawny lined spar- 

 ingly with black along median region ; vertebral line marked by 

 an ill-defined white and black dorsal stripe ; sides crossed by twelve 

 conspicuous transverse stripes from the dorsal stripe to the under- 

 pays ; lower sides and breast ochraceous, the midline of chest marked 

 by a broad black stripe but the belly and groins pure white. Fore- 

 legs pure ochraceous without the white spot on front of pasterns ; 

 band above hoofs and back of pasterns black ; a black band on back 

 of leg just above the knee. Hindlegs ochraceous with a white spot on 

 front of pasterns and a black band above hoofs and back of pasterns 

 black; a white stripe on inside of leg from the white of the belly to 

 the hock. Tail tawny above, white below, with tip seal-brown. Neck 

 somewhat lighter than the body, ecru-drab with a narrow black stripe 

 on nape from head to withers ; a white patch on forethroat and a 

 larger oval one near base. Crown of head tawny banded in front by 

 white chevron bars from the eyes to the snout ; median line of snout 

 walnut-brown ; sides of head ecru-drab with two white spots below 

 eye and a short white postocular stripe ; lips and chin white, the white 

 on forethroat bordered by dusky ; back of ears ochraceous, the tip 

 narrowly margined by blackish ; inside and base white. 



Measurements in the flesh. — Head and body along curve, 1490 ; 

 tail, 360 ; hindfoot, 470 ; ear, 206. Skull aged, the premolars much 

 worn. Greatest length, 300 ; condylo-basal length, 285 ; greatest 

 breadth, 1 10 ; orbit to gnathion, 165 ; gnathion to tooth row, 80 ; 

 length of upper tooth row, 87 ; width of palate at M 1 , 72 ; length of 

 premaxillae, 85 ; nasals, 115x31; vertical diameter of orbit, 45. 



Another female from the same locality is in the collection. It 

 agrees with the type minutely in coloration. Specimens of the lesser 

 kudu from Somaliland in the Field Museum of Chicago are lighter 

 colored and have the white spot in front of the pasterns well marked. 

 No males are in the National Museum however for comparison. 



STREPSICEROS STREPSICEROS BEA, new subspecies 



East African Greater Kudu 



Type from Donyo Geisha on the escarpment east of Lake Baringo ; 

 adult female, Cat. No. 163247. U. S. Nat. Mus. ; shot by Kermit 

 Roosevelt October 10, 1909. (Original No. 410.) 



Characters.- — Similar to the Abyssinian race Strepsiceros strepsi- 

 ceros chora in the reduced number of body stripes, but decidedly 

 darker in color on median dorsal region, ear tips and bands on pas- 

 terns ; pelage longer with the white stripes more distinctly marked. 



