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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
The head and neck are ochraceous and distinctly different 
in color from the drab-gray body. The body is suffused 
lightly by buffy-tipped hairs, but the rump and hind 
quarters are paler drab-gray. The hind legs are decidedly 
lighter than the body, being cartridge-buff in color. The 
forelegs are drab-gray in front and pale olive-gray behind, 
with buff pasterns. The under-parts are white, sharply de¬ 
fined on the sides, but less so on the inside of the legs and on 
the lower throat. The tail is drab-olive, the tip, sides, and 
under-surface clothed by long, white hairs. The head and 
fore neck are bright ochraceous, and the nose near the tip 
has a slightly darker hair-brown median streak. There is 
an ill-defined whitish area above the eye. The upper throat, 
chin, and lips are white. The ear on the back is ochraceous, 
and the inside and base are white. There is a large dark bare 
spot below the ear. The sexes are alike in color. Nursing 
young are quite identical to adults in color, the body being 
perhaps slightly grayer and decidedly longer-haired. 
The female equals or perhaps exceeds slightly the male 
in size, the largest skull in a series of fifteen being that of 
a female. The measurements of a large male in the flesh 
were: head and body, 45 inches; tail, inches; hind foot, 
inches; ear, inches. The greatest length of the 
skull is: male, 9 inches; female, 9-1V inches. Longest horns in 
a series of seven are 5 inches measured along the curve, 5^ 
inches spread at the tips. 
Specimens have been examined from the Athi Plains 
taken on Wami Hill, the Ulukenia Hills, and Kilima Kui; 
from the Loita Plains, from Lake Elmentaita, from the 
Northern Guaso Nyiro near the Ngare Ndare branch, and 
from southern Abyssinia. 
Reedbuck 
Redunca 
Redunca H. Smith, 1827, Griffith’s Cuvier Animal Kingdom, V, p. 337; 
type Antilope redunca Pallas. 
The well-known genus Cervicafira , by which the reed- 
bucks have long been known, has been recently replaced 
