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groins are white, the white extending in a narrow line to the 
base of the tail and continued as a broad band down the front 
of the leg to the hoof, but interrupted by the dark hock-band 
and the band at false hoofs. There is a white bar on the inside 
of the forelegs followed below on the inside by a black one, and 
a white bar behind the knee and another on the front of the 
pasterns; the rest of the foreleg is black. The neck is dark 
seal-brown on the nape and black on the median line of the 
throat. The lower throat is marked by a wide transverse band 
of white. The crown of head is chestnut and the interorbital 
region black with broad white chevrons extending from the 
eye. The snout is black on the top and the sides to the throat. 
The lips and chin are white, and the orbital region and area 
below the eye are tawny. The sides of the cheek behind the 
eye are marked by two large white spots. The ears are large 
and broad; the back chestnut, the outside edge and terminal 
half black, and the inside white. There is much variation 
in the extent of the black. In some males only the throat 
is blackish, the nape being chestnut. The female has the 
same pattern of color as the male, but is brighter red, the 
body being Mars-brown and the dorsal mane chiefly white. 
There is much less black than in the male, the nape being 
without black, the legs being chiefly reddish and only the me¬ 
dian line of the belly is black. Newly born young have the 
color pattern of the adults, but the body is rich tawny and the 
dark areas are much suppressed. The tail is not bovine as 
in the adult but bushy throughout as in the koodoo, the tip 
being without a longer tuft. The muzzle and the median ven¬ 
tral stripe are hair-brown and the dorsal mane is white. Eight 
skins have been examined, six of which are adult males. The 
body stripes show considerable variation, and range from 
eleven to fourteen, and also show variations of number on 
the two sides. Twelve stripes seem to be the normal number. 
Most of the specimens secured from natives come from 
the Mau forest west of Njoro, but the bongo has also been 
obtained in the Kikuyu forests near Escarpment Station 
and in the forest on the south slope of Mount Kenia. 
The female shot by Kermit Roosevelt near Njoro meas¬ 
ured in the flesh: 81^ inches in length of head and body; 
tail, 14.34 inches; ear, 12inches; and height at the withers, 
44 inches. The skull of a large male measures in length 
17 inches, that of the adult female 15 inches. The horns of the 
