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Brighter colored than the typical race from South Africa with the 

 stripes much more conspicuous although less in number. 



Coloration.— Body ochraceous-tawny. the median dorsal region 

 seal-brown, with a white stripe following vertebral column from 

 withers to rump ; sides marked by eight transverse white bands on 

 the right side and six on the left which extend from the median dorsal 

 stripe to the ventral surface or lower sides ; underparts ochraceous 

 with a broad blackish stripe medially on breast ; groins and inside of 

 legs whitish : front of legs ochraceous ; band above hoofs and 

 back of pasterns black, front of pasterns with a large blotch of 

 whitish ; tail tawny-ochraceous like the body ; tip darker walnut- 

 brown, below white. Xeck drab-gray, the nape with a thin mane of 

 long dusky brown hair, the mane wanting along the basal part of 

 neck but reappearing again on the withers. Crown of head walnut- 

 brown, crossed on the snout by a wide diagonal white band from 

 the eye, which meets its fellow on the snout ; sides of face ecru-drab, 

 two indistinct white spots below the eye ; lips and chin white ; back of 

 ears hair brown, the terminal one-half seal-brown, inside and base 

 whitish. 



Xo flesh measurements are available of specimens from British 

 East Africa. An adult male was shot at the same locality by Kermit 

 Roosevelt, but as this specimen is now mounted the female was 

 selected as the type. In the male the hair is thinner and the trans- 

 verse light stripes are less distinct. The much more distinct striping 

 and longer hair of this race are very evident on comparison with the 

 three specimens from South Africa in the National Museum and the 

 group from Somaliland in the Field Museum of Chicago. 



The skull of the female compared to skulls from South Africa has 

 a much narrower basisphenoid area below the bullae which are very 

 large; tooth row longer; interorbital region much flatter; nasal pro- 

 cesses of premaxilke much more slender; lachrymal-nasal sinus 

 larger ; terminal notches in nasal bones short. Skull of type old, the 

 first premolar worn down below the fossette. 



Greatest length of skull, 380 ; condylo-basal length, 960 ; greatest 

 breadth, 150; gnathion to orbit, 203 ; diameter of orbit, 55 ; length of 

 upper tooth row, no; gnathion to tooth row, 102; nasals, 140x37; 

 width of palate across M 1 , 95 ; width of basisphenoid between bullae, 

 21 ; height of bullae above sphenoid, 30; length of premaxillae, 100; 

 nasal notch, 18. 



The kudu found near Baringo are confined to a few square miles 

 of country among rocky hills and are widely separated from any 



