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The longest horns were a pair I picked up, measuring about 
seventeen inches in length. The females are hornless. The 
young of both sexes are of a distinct reddish-brown, getting 
darker as they grow older, and the natives say the old bucks 
SOMALI BUSHBUCK OR DECULA ANTELOPE (Tragelaphus scriptus decula). 
Length of horns, 16 inches, 
become nearly black. The hair is generally worn off along the 
spine. ‘here are four or five transverse white stripes and white 
spots, sometimes as many as thirty, on each side, more numerous 
in the young animals. The neck is scantily covered with short 
hair, and in the two young bucks we killed was very slender. 
