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Adult male. Height at withers about 50-52 inches. Géneral colour of 
body varying from reddish to pale slaty bluish grey, the latter especially 
prevalent in older animals, and perhaps due, in part, to the scantiness of 
the hair revealing the tint of the skin. Neck brown on each side at its base 
and darker than the shoulders, becoming paler towards its anterior extremity. 
Head darker fawn than the anterior end of the neck, whitish around the 
eye, a white bar running inwards from the corner of each eye and forming an 
incomplete V-shaped mark on the nose; two or three white cheek-spots ; 
edge of the upper lip and chin white, the white of the chin extending back 
on to the fore part of the inter-ramal area. From the middle of this area 
back to the hinder end of the throat extends a thickish mane of white and 
blackish-brown hairs ; no white patches on the throat. There is also a dorsal 
mane passing from the occiput, backwards along the nape, over the withers 
and down the spine to the root of the tail; the mane brown on the neck and 
shoulders, white along the back. Sides of the body and hind-quarters marked 
with white stripes, which vary in number from about four in the northern 
forms to about nine or ten in the southern. ‘Tail white below, black at the 
tip. Belly greyish, blacker in the middle. Fore legs of a rich fawn down 
the front, whitish at the base on inner side and behind the knee, also on the 
inner and posterior side of the cannon-bone, a pale blackish-brown patch 
above the knee on the inner side; fetlocks and pasterns also rich fawn, black 
behind ; the white pastern-spots only just traceable. Hind leg coloured like 
the fore leg; inner side of the thigh at the base and anterior side down to the 
hock white, the white fading away between the hock and the pastern. 
Horns with bold and open spiral curvature, measuring about 40 inches or 
more in a straight line, and an additional 12 inches or so round the curve ; 
distance between the tips varying, irrespective of the length, from about 24 to 
nearly 40 inches. The skull of an adult gives the following measurements :— 
Basal length 15 inches, orbit to muzzle 9, greatest width 6°33. 
Female. Generally similar to the male, but hornless and smaller and slighter; 
similarly marked with white, but the ground-colour of the body of a tolerably 
uniform fawn, becoming darker above. 
Young redder in colour than the adult and strongly marked with white. 
Hab. Africa south of the Zambesi, extending on the west into Angola, and on 
the east throughout East Africa up to Abyssinia, mostly in the higher districts. 
