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distinct and mesially divided. Back of ear white below, tan above. Neck 
distinctly darker in hue than the shoulder and rest of the body ; a transverse 
white patch at the lower end of throat; no corresponding patch at upper 
extremity of throat. Body from shoulder to root of tail marked with 
indications of about fourteen pale transverse stripes, some six of these _ 
standing out more clearly than the rest ; a few white spots, mostly low down 
upon the haunches. Tail nearly black above, at sides, and at tip; white 
below. Fore legs black above the knee on the outer side and on inner side 
halfway up to the chest; a large white patch above close to chest; knee 
also white on inner side and behind; portion between knee and fetlock a rich 
fawn-colour; fetlocks and pasterns black behind and above the hoofs in 
front ; a white spot on the inner side of fetlocks, and two on front of the 
pastern. Hind leg coloured like the front leg, with the front and inner 
side of the thigh and of the hock white, the two white patches separated ve 
a black band; no white patch on the inner side of the fetlock. 
Long mane of dark hair extending almost from chin along throat, chest, 
and each side of belly, and fringing the front of the thigh almost to the 
hock, and the back of it up to the root of the tail. There is also a dorsal 
mane extending from the nape to the neck, reversed from the base of the 
neck ; the hairs black or brown in colour along the nape of the neck from 
the occiput to the shoulder, tipped with white from the shoulders to the tail. 
Tail cervine, thickly hairy throughout. 
Horns black, pale amber-coloured at the tips, ridged in the basal half; 
about 29 inches long round the curve, and 24 in a straight line; usually 
with a single, and rarely with a double, curvature. 
The skull of an adult male gives the following measurements :—Basal 
length 12 inches, orbit to muzzle a little over 7, width almost 5. 
Female without horns and strikingly different from the male in colour. 
General colour a bright chestnut. Sides of the body and haunches marked 
with about eleven white stripes, those behind shoulder reaching almost to 
the ventral surface ; ventral surface pale yellow; a few white spots on the 
haunches. Nose marked with a broad black band, which extends laterally 
on to the muzzle; a narrow black dorsal stripe, extending from the occiput 
to the root of the tail, intersected with white where the lateral stripes cross it. 
No mane on any part of neck, body, or hind-quarters. 
Hab. South-eastern Africa, from Zululand to Southern Nyasaland. 
