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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
The dorsal color is ochraceous-buff, speckled very lightly 
by narrow dusky vermiculations to the hair. The under¬ 
parts are white, with the breast showing, but a slight ten¬ 
dency toward the ochraceous color of hindei. The legs are 
buffy, like the body, but lack the darker vermiculation and 
are from the fetlocks to the hoofs solid fuscous-brown, this 
color being continued upward in front as an indefinite darker 
leg stripe. The tail is marked by a median black dorsal 
stripe, the sides and under-surface being white, in sharp 
contrast, and the tip mixed black and white. The head 
is ochraceous, marked by a broad seal-brown or black median 
stripe from the muzzle to the horn bases. The lips, chin, 
and forethroat are white, the chin being marked on the 
sides by two faint drab spots representing the blackish 
patches of hindei. The eyelashes and anteorbital stripe are 
black. The ears on the back are covered by a short scattered 
growth of ochraceous hair, but their general color tone is 
brownish, due to the dark skin showing through, while the 
inner side and the base are white. The throat and the nape 
are ochraceous-buff and slightly darker than the body. 
The body size and proportions are quite as in the Athi 
bush duiker. The horns of the type specimen are 4 yi 
inches in length by 2^ inches in spread at the tips. They 
are directed upward from the dorsal profile of the skull at 
an angle of 130 degrees. Besides the Voi specimens, others 
were secured at Maji ya Chumvi and Mariakani Stations 
on the Uganda Railway. Deserti is a lowland race occupy¬ 
ing the Taru Desert as far east as the edge of the cocoa-palm 
zone fringing the coast. 
Subfamily Nesotraginee 
We have in this group antelopes of small or diminutive 
size and of somewhat diverse characters, such as the pygmy 
sunis and royal antelopes, the oribis and the steinboks. 
They agree in having the anteorbital gland of large size 
and opening on the face by a rounded pore, in having rudi¬ 
mentary tails, and in the small size of the horns, which are 
confined to the male sex. The pelage is of normal texture. 
