BUSHBUCKS, KOODOOS, AND ELANDS 427 
fetlocks, and two white spots above the hoofs in front of 
the pasterns. These white markings are always present. 
The body color ranges in shade from a bright tawny in 
females to a dark seal-brown in the males of some races, 
and in color pattern from ten white transverse stripes and 
one longitudinal one through every degree of spotting 
within the limits of these lines to races which are quite 
monocolored. The male in all races has a blackish breast 
and belly, or rather this area is always darker than the 
sides of the body, and the midline of the back is marked by 
a low mane of longer hair. The female lacks the dorsal 
mane and the darker coloration of the breast and belly. 
The young of the various races resemble closely their female 
parent in color, and the various races can be distinguished 
quite as readily at birth as can the adult female. The 
darker coloration of the male is gradually assumed during 
youth. The male is distinctly larger than the female. 
We found the bushbuck common in different forms, 
from East Africa through Uganda to the Lado. We found 
it in the high, wet, cold mountains, in the hot, dry, low 
country, and in the wet, low country. Everywhere it 
avoided the open and lived in the timber or brush. But it 
showed a degree of adaptability to changing conditions, 
such as, for instance, the roan and waterbuck also show, 
but which other species, like the topi and oryx, do not show. 
In the Lado the bushbuck—here a form of harnessed bush- 
buck—lived in the rather thin, rather scanty patches of 
thorn scrub with which the dry country was dotted. They 
were always within such distance of water that they could 
drink at least once in the twenty-four hours. But except 
when drinking they were as apt to be found miles from 
water as in its vicinity, and we saw them feeding in the im¬ 
mediate neighborhood of hartebeest, kob, and waterbuck, 
all in the same type of country. In East Africa and Uganda 
