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size of the skull, it is smaller than the races to the south of 
it in British territory. No measurements of the horns or 
body are recorded. 
’Nzoia Defassa Waterbuck 
Kobus defassa nzoice 
Native Names: Karamojo, ecoria; Kamasia, kisomere; Kavirondo (Jaulo), 
irigut. 
Kobus defassa nzoice Matschie, 1910, Sitz. Ber. Ges. Nat. Freund. Berl., 
p. 417. 
Range. —From the eastern edge of the Mau Escarp¬ 
ment westward to Mount Elgon and northward to the high¬ 
lands west of Lake Rudolf. 
Doctor Matschie, the describer of innumerable races of 
antelopes from East Africa, named the present race from a 
specimen shot by Major Powell-Cotton on the Uasin Gishu 
Plateau. Jackson was perhaps the first sportsman to meet 
with this race. He records it as abundant as far north as 
the Turkwell River drainage. The ’Nzoia defassa is a hand¬ 
some race with an abundance of long cinnamon-rufous 
hair in the coat. It is the reddest of all the East African 
races and has the heaviest coat of hair. Overlying the 
reddish hair is a heavy black lining of dark-tipped hair. 
The forehead and the sides of the snout are usually bright 
rufous and the nape of the neck is strongly suffused by 
cinnamon-rufous. The horns are much shorter than those 
of ugandce and are more parallel in outline, seldom showing 
the great divergence at the tips exhibited by that race. 
A fully adult male from the Uasin Gishu Plateau meas¬ 
ured in the flesh: 84 inches in length of head and body; tail, 
\$ y /2 inches; hind foot, 22 inches; ear, 8 inches. The horns 
of the largest male in a series of four are 26^ inches in 
length by 16 inches in spread. 
Rainey Defassa Waterbuck 
Kobus defassa raineyi 
Kobus defassa raineyi Heller, 1913, Smith. Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 13, p. 5. 
Range. —Southeastern drainage of the Victoria Nyanza 
from the headwaters of the Amala River in British East 
