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white, as are also the chin, throat, lips, and margin of the nos¬ 
trils. The whole lower throat is ochraceous and somewhat 
lighter than the nape. The under-parts and the inside of the 
legs to the hocks and the knees and the under-surface of 
the tail are sharply defined white. The legs have a broad, 
blackish-brown band extending from the whitish hoof-band 
to the shoulder on the forelegs, and to the hocks on the hind 
legs. The back part of the forelegs is whitish, but this area in 
the hind legs is ochraceous. The false hoofs are bordered by a 
much narrower band of white than the hoofs. The female 
is like the male, but easily distinguishable by the dark seal- 
brown tips of the ears and the small extent of white in the 
orbital region. The female resembles the female leucotis , but 
the dorsal color is much darker tawny-ochraceous, the sides 
are more ochraceous-buff, and show considerable contrast 
to the white under-parts. The backs of ears are like the body 
color, the tips are broadly tipped by seal-brown, and the base 
and inside are white. The orbital white area is not pro¬ 
duced forward as a preocular stripe. The legs have a dark 
streak in front which is deep seal-brown as in the females of 
alurcz. The hoof-band and the inside of the legs are buffy. 
The measurements of an adult male in the flesh from the 
Uasin Gishu Plateau are: head and body, 65 inches; tail, 13 
inches; hind foot, 17 inches; ear, 6 inches. Length of skull, 
11^2 inches. The average length of the horns along the curve 
is 16 inches and the spread is 14 inches. The longest horns 
in a series of three adult males are 1 inches, and the 
greatest spread is n inches. A series of both sexes from 
the headwaters of the ’Nzoia River in the Uasin Gishu 
Plateau region have been studied, also the types in the 
British Museum, including specimens from central Uganda. 
Lado Kob 
Adenota kob alurce 
Native Names: Madi, ha; Acholi, til. 
Adenota kob alurce Heller, 1913, Smith. Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 7, p. n. 
Range. —West side of the Nile from the Albert Nyanza 
northward to the Bahr-el-Ghazal drainage; limits of range 
not known. 
