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This antelope is distinguished by its comparatively 
small horns, which are annulated, curved 'forward, at the 
tips and usually about six inches long. The females 
ai'e hornless. They have a large bare glandular patch 
below their long ears. A good sized buck weighs 
a])out 70 lbs. 
Waterbuck {Gobas ellipsiprymnus). 
Reedbuck have a tawny yellow coat which makes 
it very difiicult to distinguish them among the long dry 
grass in which they live, and move about like phantoms. 
They are as active among the rocks as a chamois on a 
mountain and wonderfully alert. We found them very 
abundant about Lake Nakuru and on the slopes of 
Alenengai (see p. 169). They occur in groups of four 
or five. 
In 1895 a new species was described and named 
C. (‘h((/nlcri after Mr. Astor Chanler, who sent 
home the skin which Mr. Rowland Ward considered to 
