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row line of white. The head is drab-brown and the snout 
is marked by two broad white chevrons from above the eye 
to the midline of the snout, where, however, they are sepa¬ 
rated by a narrow space. The cheeks below the eye are 
marked by two white spots. The upper lips and chin are 
white. The ears are small but broad, and are seal-brown on 
the terminal half with the rest of back, base, and whole 
inside white. The female is bright tawny-rufous with a 
dark stripe following the median line of the back, with 
indications of several white stripes on the body, and the legs 
are striped with white, as in the male. The young show the 
transverse white stripes much more distinctly than the adult 
female. The characteristic white markings on the head, 
throat, and legs of the bushbuck are found in the sitatunga, 
but they are much less conspicuous. 
The male shot by Kermit Roosevelt measured in the flesh: 
in length of head and body, 54 inches; tail, 12inches; 
hind foot, 19L2 inches; ear, 5^2 inches, and height at the 
withers, 39^ inches. The skull of this specimen measures 
in length 10^ inches. The longest horns recorded by Ward 
are from the Bahr el Ghazal, and show a length around the 
curve of 35 inches. Average horns are, however, much less 
in length, 20 inches being the usual length. 
Lesser Koodoo 
A mmelaphus 
Ammelaphus Heller, 1912, Smith. Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 8, p. 15. 
The lesser koodoo has been given generic distinction from 
the greater owing to the more narrowly spiral horns, absence 
of a throat mane, and presence of the white patches on the 
throat and chest, as in the bushbuck. It is quite evident 
from these differences in coloration that the lesser koodoo is 
no more closely related to the greater koodoo than it is to 
the bushbuck or the bongo. The color pattern is almost 
identical with that of the bongo in those features in which it 
differs from the greater koodoo, that is, the absence of a 
throat mane and the white patches on the throat and chest. 
The body stripes are practically the same in number and 
position as in the bongo, from which it differs decidedly by 
