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slides over the treacherous mud, or swims where the water 
is deep. We found the sitatunga living in papyrus where the 
water was waist-deep on a man. The stomach of the one 
Kermit shot was filled, not with grass, but with the leaves 
and twig tops of a shrub which grew in and alongside of the 
swamps. 
The Uganda sitatunga is readily distinguishable from the 
Zambesi species, selousi , by the marked sexual difference in 
color, the female being rufous and the male drab-brown. 
In selousi both sexes are drab-brown. The males of the two 
species are distinguishable by the more spotted and striped 
character of the coat in the Uganda sitatunga, which has 
faint indications on the body of the white stripes and spots 
of the female. From the Congo sitatunga there are only 
slight racial differences, the two forms being closely related 
by the similarity of the coloration of the females, which are 
rufous, with indications of transverse white stripes on the 
body. The male of the Congo race is much more distinctly 
banded and spotted on the sides of the body than is the case 
with spekei , although both are alike in the general drab- 
brown tone of coloration. 
The coloration of the male is uniform drab-brown with 
the median dorsal line marked by a whitish stripe. There is 
a white bar in front of the chest and a white spot on the fore¬ 
throat. The sides of the body are marked by three or four 
faint indications of white transverse stripes which reach only 
half-way down the sides. There are a few white hairs on 
the lower sides indicating the lower lateral line of spots in 
bushbucks, and the hind quarters are marked by several 
distinct spots. The breast is drab-brown, like the dorsal 
surface, and the belly whitish, the white extending down the 
inside of the hind leg to the hoof, where it merges with the 
white spots in front of the pastern; rest of leg drab-brown, 
like the body color. The foreleg is white at the axilla, the 
white area continuing down the inside of the leg to the pas¬ 
tern, as in the hind leg. The tail is tufted at the tip, the hair 
at the base being shorter and less abundant, and is colored 
above drab-brown, the under side being marked by a nar- 
