WATERBUCKS AND REEDBUCKS 
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The Lado kob was described recently from specimens 
shot by Colonel Roosevelt at Rhino Camp on the west bank 
of the Nile a few miles north of the station of Wadelai. 
In the Lado, the territory was everywhere of much the 
same character, grassy plains covered with a sparse, scanty 
growth of trees and bushes; and the kob, like the other 
species, was far less specialized in its habitat than on the 
Uasin Gishu. Waterbuck, kob, and hartebeest were all 
found indiscriminately over the country, and often together; 
from the same spot in two shots, at only a couple of seconds 
interval, we shot a hartebeest bull and a fine buck kob. 
As a rule, none of the antelope were shy in the Lado. 
The Lado race is like the Uganda kob in color, but lighter 
and decidedly smaller. The skull is smaller and flatter in 
both sexes and the size of the hoofs is smaller. It approaches 
the typical kob of Senegal in its small size and stands quite 
intermediate between it and thomasi , but differs by having 
the head more extensively white, the entire orbital region 
being white and the ears also showing a tendency to white¬ 
ness, in some being uniform buffy on the back without the 
blackish tip. The old males, however, never assume the 
black coat characteristic of this sex in leucotis nor do they 
show, as a rule, the white ears. The female is distinguish¬ 
able from the female Uganda kob by its lighter color and 
the absence of the black lining to the dorsal region. The 
hair is considerably shorter than in thomasi , being at the 
hair whorl three-fourths of an inch or less, while on the 
Uasin Gishu specimen it is one and one-fourth inches in 
length at the same point. 
The color of the head and body in the adult male is ochra- 
ceous, lightening on the lower sides and the midline of the 
throat to ochraceous-buff. The backs of the ears are lighter 
than the head, and are ochraceous-buff, but the tips are very 
little darker, being ochraceous-tawny. The orbital region, 
base and sides of ears, lips, borders of nostrils, chin, upper 
throat, chest, under-parts, inside of legs, under side of tail, 
