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Height at the withers of the adult male about 43 inches. General colour 
of the head and body bright chestnut, with a white spinal stripe extending 
from the withers to the root of the tail, and about 14 or 15 transverse white 
stripes on the shoulders, flanks, and hind-quarters, passing from the spinal 
stripe above on to the belly beneath. Head with a patch of deeper colour 
upon the forehead, and extending about two inches below the eyes. An 
angular V-shaped white mark extending inwards from the eye on to the 
nose, interrupted in the middle line by a narrow brown band ; chin and lips 
white ; two or three cheek-spots large and sometimes fused together; inter- 
ramal area and upper end of throat covered with hairs of a blackish hue ; 
lower end of the throat with a very distinct transverse white band; chest 
and belly covered with short hair of a purplish-brown colour; area between 
the hind legs and beneath the tail up to the anus white. Fore legs blackish 
from the fetlocks to the knees, chestnut from the knees to the shoulders 
externally ; white at the bases close to the chest, as also above the knees and 
between knees and fetlocks internally ; a large white spot on the front of 
the pasterns. Hind legs chestnut down to the fetlocks on the outer side; 
front of the hocks and cannon-bones broadly white; fetlocks blackish or 
brownish, both without and within; a white patch on the pasterns as on 
the fore legs. 
Hair short and close all over the body. No mane on the throat; hairs 
along the nape reversed, but scarcely forming a mane, being merely slightly 
elongated; behind the parting there is a short spinal mane. ‘ail bovine, 
thinly covered with hairs of the same colour as those of the body, and ending 
in a tuft of long hairs of a darker red tint *. 
Horns massive, rather smooth, with weak anterior basal crest, amber- 
yellow tip, and a single twist; usually about 30 inches long round the curve 
and about 26 in a straight line. A skull gives the following measurements :— 
Basal length 14°5 inches, orbit to muzzle 8-5, greatest width 6°25. 
Female. Similar to the male in markings, but without horns, and rather 
paler in colour and smaller in size. 
Hab. Forests of the West-African coast-range, from Liberia to Gaboon. 
* In our Plate XCI. the tail has been incorrectly represented as short and bushy, as in the 
other species of T’ragelaphus. 
