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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
of Nimule. Absent from the low country bordering the 
Nile and the Victoria Nyanza, where the race bor occurs. 
Herr Neumann described this race from some flat skins 
which he obtained from the natives in the Kavirondo coun¬ 
try, where the race reaches its extreme eastern limits and 
is not so well marked as in central Uganda. Speke and 
Grant met with the bushbuck on several occasions in 
Uganda. Grant described one he shot very carefully and 
mentions the aversion the natives have for it, owing to their 
superstitious belief regarding the unwholesomeness of its 
flesh as food. This belief regarding the poisonous character 
of the flesh of the bushbuck is quite universal among the 
natives of British East Africa. 
The Uganda bushbuck approaches the highland race of 
East Africa most closely in color and size. It is distinguish¬ 
able from this race by the much lighter color of the old 
bucks, which never become seal-brown, but are a light 
ochraceous-tawny. They are marked more numerously by 
white spots, a row extending from the forelegs to the hind 
quarters, where they merge with an irregular assemblage of 
spots. No transverse white stripes are found in the old 
males. The body of the female is, however, crossed by 
from four to six transverse stripes, and she has also well- 
marked rows of spots on the flanks and hind quarters. The 
immature male is striped and spotted like the female, but 
has the blackish breast and belly and the dorsal mane of 
short hair of the adult male. From the Nile bushbuck this 
race is at once distinguishable by the absence of both trans¬ 
verse or longitudinal stripes in the adult male, and by the 
much larger body size. It does, however, approach the 
Nile race in the similarity in body color between the sexes. 
The line of spots on the flanks marks the position of the white 
longitudinal stripe in bor . 
No measurements of adult male specimens in the flesh 
are available. An adult female, however, measured in 
length of head and body 49 inches; tail, 8^ inches; hind 
foot, 13^ inches; ear, 5^ inches. The skull of an old male 
has a length of 9^4 inches, with a length of horn along the 
curve of the keel of 14^2 inches. 
Specimens have been examined from the Maanja River 
in central Uganda and the types from Kavirondo. Bush- 
