Wt 
Male adult. Height about 28 inches. General colour a rich dark red, 
passing in places into black. Head fawn-colour, with an ashy-black band 
extending from between the eyes to the muzzle; upper lip white at the sides ; 
chin and interramal area white; two white spots on each cheek, the lower 
fusing with the white of the interramal area; a small white stripe running 
inwards from the eye, sometimes but not always present ; whitish patch at base 
of ear ; ear ashy black behind, a dark spot near the outer edge in front. Neck 
greyish fawn above, clouded with black towards the shoulders. Throat with 
two, upper and lower, white patches; area between the patches a dusky 
yellowish grey. Body a rich dark red at the sides, passing into black below, 
marked with about half-a-dozen transverse white stripes; a few white spots 
on the shoulders, and a large, though variable, number of white spots on the 
haunches; a white line, sometimes broken up into a series of spots, running 
longitudinally along the lower portion of the sides above the belly between 
the shoulder and the hind-quarters, and an upper longitudinal white stripe, 
sometimes long, sometimes short, running backwards from the shoulder. 
Tail red, with white edges and usually a black tip. Belly and chest blackish. 
Outer side of fore and hind legs blackish above the knees and hocks, reddish 
fawn below; inner sides white at the bases close up to body; a broad black 
band above the knee and hock; back and inner sides of the knee and front 
and inner side of hock white, whence a white stripe extends downwards 
along the inner side and anterior edge of the cannon-bone to the fetlock ; 
fetlocks and pasterns blackish; pasterns with a large white patch in front. 
Hairs on body longish. At the base of the neck there is a more or less well- 
defined collar of short hair passing inferiorly above the lower white neck-band. 
Along the back from the shoulders to the root of the tail extends a crest or 
mane of long hairs, black over the withers, tipped with white on the rest of 
the back. Horns as in preceding species. 
The skull of an adult male gives the following measurements :—Basal 
length 8°25 inches, nose to orbit 4°75, width 3°5, horn 9:5. 
Female similar to the male, but without horns, and without the black tints 
on the body ; white markings very conspicuous. 
Young like the female. 
Hab. Forest-districts of Western Africa from Senegal to Angola, and 
extending thence to the Chobé on the south. 
