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tips are hooked forward but little. The coloration is light, 
without the black lining so characteristic of wardi , the gen¬ 
eral dorsal color being ochraceous-buff. The stripe extend¬ 
ing down the front of the leg is pale, usually mouse-gray in 
color. The horn dimensions of a large male shot at Nimule 
are: length along curve 11^4 inches, greatest spread 9 inches. 
Another large male collected by Donaldson Smith between 
Lake Rudolf and the Nile has longer and wider-spread 
horns, the dimensions being 14^ inches in length, and 15 
inches in expanse. 
Swahili Reedbuck 
Redunca redunca tohi 
Native Name: Swahili, tohi. 
Redunca redunca tohi Heller, 1913, Smith. Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 7, p. 10. 
Range. —The moist coast belt from the Tana River 
southward to Kilimanjaro and German East Africa, but not 
occurring farther inland than the edge of the desert nyika. 
The Swahili reedbuck is local in distribution and of rare 
occurrence. It is found along the railway only at Maria- 
kani, where the type and several other specimens were 
secured in 1912 by Heller. It occurred in this district in 
the grassy valleys and hillsides in groups of three or four 
consisting of an old female and two or three offspring of 
various ages. No adult bucks were seen. Usually they 
were found lying down in the long grass, and were not de¬ 
tected until bounding away in great bounds over the grass. 
Sometimes when startled they uttered their peculiar sharp 
bark or bleat. 
The Swahili reedbuck differs from wardi by smaller size; 
the basal length of skull being only 9 inches. The colora¬ 
tion is lighter and purer tawny, the black lining on the 
dorsal surface being much less evident. The dark leg streaks 
are much narrower or obsolete. The pelage is shorter and 
thinner, the length on the back being only three-fourths 
of an inch. 
The color is tawny and purest on the sides and the legs, 
the dorsal region being darkest owing to the prevalence of 
black-tipped hairs, which are absent on the sides and the 
limbs. The crown of the head is marked by a dusky-brown 
