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Horns S-shaped, bowed forward at the base and then recurved at the 
tips 
Back of pasterns haired; hoofs short; snout slender; horns shorter 
and narrower; tail short, not reaching hocks, without 
tuft; ears longer Adenota 
Back of pasterns hairless; hoofs long; snout short and bulging; 
horns longer, broadly lyrate; tail long, reaching hocks, 
tufted at tip; ears shorter Onotragus 
Rock Reedbucks 
Oreodorcas 
Oreodorcas Heller, 1912, Smith. Misc. Coll., vol. 50, No. 8, p. 13; type 
species Redunca fulvorufula. 
The rock reedbuck shows no striking external differences 
from the true reedbucks with the exception of the much 
shorter horns, the drab body color and the more bushy 
tail. The genus is based chiefly on the skull differences 
which consist of smaller lachrymal-nasal sinus, larger orbit, 
and the smaller size of the sphenoidal processes of the basi- 
occipital bone. * Oreodorcas has habits strikingly different 
from the swamp or plains haunting reedbuck. It dwells 
upon rocky hillsides and mountain slopes on the edge of 
the plains country, in close proximity to the haunts of the 
klipspringer. The genus includes a single species, fulvo¬ 
rufula, which covers a wide range of country in the eastern 
portion of Africa extending from Cape Colony north to 
southern Abyssinia. Over this region it exhibits some geo¬ 
graphic variation which has given rise to the recognition of 
several races. 
Chanler Rock Reedbuck 
Oreodorcas fulvorufula chanleri 
Native Names: Kikuyu, katabidi; Wakamba, ndabidi. 
Cervicapra chanleri Rothschild, 1895, Nov. Zook, p. 53. 
Range.— British East Africa from the German border 
northward to southern Abyssinia in the Rift Valley and 
higher parts of the coast drainage areas. 
