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bands on the pasterns. The pelage is longer and the white 
stripes are very distinctly marked. It is brighter-colored 
than the typical race from South Africa, the stripes being 
much more conspicuous although less in number. 
The coloration is ochraceous-tawny, but the median 
dorsal region is darker, being seal-brown with a white 
stripe following the vertebral column from the withers to 
the rump. The sides are marked by six or eight transverse 
white bands which extend from the median dorsal stripe 
to the ventral surface or lower sides. The under-parts are 
ochraceous with a broad blackish stripe extending medially 
on the breast. The groins and the inside of the legs are 
whitish and the front of the legs ochraceous. The band 
above the hoofs and the back of the pasterns are black, and 
the front of the pasterns are marked by a large blotch of whit¬ 
ish. The tail is tawny-ochraceous like the body, the tip 
darker walnut-brown, and the under side white. The neck 
is drab-gray, and the nape has a thin mane of long, dusky- 
brown hair, which is continued along the midline of the back 
to the tail. The throat has a long mane of brownish hair 
extending to the chest; the sides are buffy. The crown of 
the head is walnut-brown crossed on the snout by a wide 
diagonal white band from the eye, which meets its fellow on 
the snout. The sides of the face are ecru-drab and marked 
by two indistinct white spots below the eye. The lips and 
chin are white. The back of the ears is hair-brown, the ter¬ 
minal half being seal-brown, and the inside and base whitish. 
The female is usually longer-haired than the male and has 
the white body stripes more distinctly marked. The throat 
mane is absent and the dorsal mane is not so distinct. 
The koodoos found near Baringo are confined to a few 
square miles of country among rocky hills, and are widely sep¬ 
arated from any other group. One hundred miles north, near 
the south shore of Lake Rudolf, are a few others, while to the 
south the nearest ones occur on the German border near the 
Southern Guaso Nyiro River. Wide breaks of this sort, how¬ 
ever, are characteristic of the distribution of the greater koo¬ 
doo, owing, no doubt, to the isolated nature of the hilly and 
rocky country which they select as their haunts. 
No flesh measurements are available. The skull of the 
adult male measures 16 inches in greatest length. The 
