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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
Key to Adult Males of the Races of scriptus 
Neck without a collar of short hair 
No stripes or bands on body meneliki 
Sides marked by two longitudinal stripes decula 
Neck with a collar of short hair 
No stripes or bands on body 
Body color dark, chestnut or seal-brown 
Hind quarters marked with two or three white spots 
delamerei 
Hind quarters with many white spots massaicus 
Body color light, ochraceous or tawny 
Dorsal mane white dama 
Dorsal mane black 
Collar of short hair well marked multicolor 
Collar of short hair indistinct nigrinotatus 
Body color olive-gray, without reddish suffusion olivaceus 
Body crossed by transverse bands and one longitudinal stripe 
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Highland Bushbuck 
Tragelaphus scriptus delamerei 
Native Names: Kikuyu, swalika; Kikamba, ndzvayia. 
Tragelaphus delamerei Pocock, 1900, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., p. 95. 
Range. —From the highlands south and east of Lake 
Rudolf southward through the highlands of British East 
Africa to the southern coast of the Victoria Nyanza. 
The bushbuck named for Lord Delamere by Pocock, in 
1900, was assigned to Sayer, Somaliland, erroneously, and 
has remained unrecognizable, partly owing to this confusion 
of locality, and partly to the immaturity and faded condi¬ 
tion of the type specimen. Sayer is, however, in British 
East Africa. It is situated at the southern edge of the Lo- 
rogi Mountains, on the northeastern limits of the Laikipia 
Plateau, at an altitude of four thousand four hundred feet, 
and is on one of the old trade routes to Mount Marsabit 
and Lake Rudolf. A few years later Thomas described the 
