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other group. One hundred miles north near the south shore of Lake 

 Rudolf are a few others, while to the south the nearest ones occur 

 on the German border near the Southern Guaso Nyiro River. Wide 

 breaks of this sort, however, are characteristic of the distribution of 

 the greater kudu owing to the isolated nature of the hilly and rocky 

 country which they select as their haunts. 



KOBUS DEFASSA RAINEYI, new subspecies 

 Rainey Defassa Waterbuck 



Type from the Amala River, British East Africa ; adult male. Cat. 

 No. 181961, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; shot by Paul J. Rainey, May 14. 191 1. 

 (Original No. 2203.) 



Characters. — A large race exceeding in body size that of any 

 other in British East Africa. Coloration nearest Kobus defassa 

 tjaderi of Laikipia but differing by the more reddish body coloration 

 and more restricted black snout patch which ends in front of the 

 interorbital region. Distinguishable from Kobus defassa nzoicu by 

 larger body size, narrower skull and absence of rufous on the nape. 



Coloration. — Body cinnamon-drab in effect, the color made up of 

 a mixture of cinnamon hair with black tips interspersed sparingly 

 with white hairs, the black tone due to the black tipped hairs gives a 

 dark cast to the whole coloration ; back darkest, sides lighter and 

 more grayish ; breast fuscous-brown without cinnamon vermicula- 

 tion; belly and posterior surface of hindquarters white, the latter in 

 sharp contrast to the dark back and sides. Tail darker than back, 

 seal-brown without cinnamon mixture, a narrow streak on under side 

 whitish to within a few inches of the tip. Legs from knees and hock 

 uniform dark seal-brown with a fringe of whitish hair about hoofs 

 and false hoofs. Neck slightly lighter than the body, the sides and 

 throat grayish with a white patch on forethroat and with the nape 

 decidedly cinnamon. Forehead uniform rufous from horn bases to 

 front of eyes ; ridge of snout to muzzle black or seal-brown varie- 

 gated by a few scattered white hairs ; tip of snout bordering muzzle, 

 upper lips and chin white ; sides of snout tawny lined by black ; a 

 broad white stripe above eye from the middle to an inch in front 

 of angle on sides of snout. Cheeks below eye grayish like sides of 

 neck. Back of ears cinnamon, gradually growing darker toward tip 

 where they are broadly seal-brown on both sides ; inside except ex- 

 treme tip white. 



Measurements in the flesh. — Tail, 410: hindfoot, 510; ear, 210. 

 Skull, condylo-basal length. 390; greatest breadth, 155; nasals, 152 



