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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
The highland reedbuck is a dark-colored race, with long 
pelage and with short, sharply hooked forward horns. The 
dorsal region is heavily lined by black-tipped hairs on a 
tawny-ochraceous ground, the legs are marked in front 
by a broad, ill-defined blackish band, and the under-parts 
are white, sharply defined against the tawny of the dorsal 
surface. 
The measurements of an adult male in the flesh were: 
head and body, 53 inches; tail, 7^ inches; hind foot, 16^2 
inches; ear, 6 inches. Greatest length of largest skull: male, 
io>^ inches; female, 9^ inches. The longest horns meas¬ 
ure 10X inches on the curve and 9 J/& inches in greatest 
spread, in a series of nine males. The specimens examined 
were collected in the Uasin Gishu Plateau, on the Mau 
Escarpment at Molo, Lake Elmentaita, the Amala River 
near the German border, the Athi Plains in the vicinity of 
Nairobi, and from the Maanja River of central Uganda. 
Nile Reedbuck 
Redunca redunca cottoni 
Native Names: Dinka, kao; Bari, bore. 
Cervicapra redunca cottoni Rothschild, 1902, in Powell-Cotton’s “ Sporting 
Trip Through Abyssinia,” p. 470, two figures of skull and horns. 
Range.- —The Nile Valley from the Sobat River and 
Bahr el Ghazal southward in Uganda as far as the Albert 
Nyanza and the Victoria Nile. 
The type of this race was collected by Major Powell- 
Cotton in the lowlands of the Nile between the main river 
and the branch known as the Bahr el Zeraf. It was de¬ 
scribed in 1902 by Walter Rothschild in an appendix to 
Powell-Cotton’s “ Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia,” to¬ 
gether with another race, donaldsoni , from a point midway 
between the head of Lake Rudolf and the Nile. The latter 
race, however, is indistinguishable in horn shape and color¬ 
ation, and must be regarded as a synonym of the race first 
described. 
The Nile reedbuck is readily distinguishable from other 
equatorial races by its wide-spread horns. The horns spread 
outward, the expanse usually exceeding the length, and the 
