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Nearly similar to C. arundinum, but decidedly smaller, and with the horn 
more hooked at their tip. As the hooked tip, however, gradually wears off, 
and the horns grow up straight from their bases, even this difference tends 
to disappear in quite adult specimens. The horns attain a length of from 
10 to 13 inches. ‘The tail is rather shorter and less bushy than in 
C. arundinum, and the black markings of the limbs are less defined than in 
well-marked examples of that species. In the general colour there is also 
less difference between the head and the body than in C. arundinum, both 
being fawn-coloured. 
Skull dimensions of an old male :—Basal length 9 inches, greatest 
breadth 4:3, muzzle to orbit 5°35. 
Female. Like the male, but hornless. 
Hab. Abyssinia and East Africa, southward to Kilimanjaro. 
The great explorer of Abyssinia, Riippell, was the first to obtain specimens 
of the Reedbuck in that country, although its existence there had, perhaps, 
been vaguely alluded to by Bruce in his ‘Travels.’ Riippell was at first 
inclined to refer the Abyssinian animal, which he met with in the plains of 
Woggara, to C. redunca, but at a later period, when he had had an opportunity 
of comparing its skull with that of the West-African species, came to the 
couclusion that it was distinct, and changed its specific name to “ dohor.” 
‘“« Cervicapra bohor” has therefore been generally adopted as the appellation 
of the East-African Reedbuck, although, as yet, we are far from being well 
acquainted with this animal and the points of its distinctions from its 
congeners. 
Heuglin, in his memoir on the Antelopes of North-east Africa, enumerates 
this species still under the name redunca of Pallas, but quotes the plate of 
Antilope bohor in Rippell’s ‘ Atlas,’ and gives its native Amharic name as 
‘*Behor.” Heuglin met with it in small troops in the bushy plains and hills 
of the provinces of Woggara, Dembea, Begemeger, and Foggara in Abyssinia, 
at a height of from six to eight hundred feet above the sea-level. Heuglin 
was not certain as to having encountered this Antelope in the districts west 
of the Nile, but believed that a female specimen which he obtained in 
November 1853, in Southern Kordofan, must have belonged toit. According 
to Dr. Giinther (P. Z. S. 1890, p. 607), Sir Samuel Baker met with the 
Bohor among the Madi tribes on the White Nile between 4° and 2° 30! 
