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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
Horns heavily ringed for half their length cottoni 
Coat dull, cinnamon-brown; horns well ringed esquatoria 
Tail black; contrasting conspicuously with the dorsal coloration 
Coat ochraceous-tawny, long; horns not compressed or keeled 
kenyce 
Coat clay color or buff, short; horns compressed and furnished with 
a keel on the posterior side haggardi 
Abyssinian Oribi 
Ourebia montana montana 
Native Name: Abyssinian, facka. 
Antilope montana Cretzschmar, 1826, Atl. RiippelPs Reise, Saug., p. 11, 
pi. III. 
Range. —Nile watershed of the Abyssinian highlands, as 
far east as the edge of the Nile lowlands and south to the 
headwaters of the Omo River and the highlands north of 
Lake Rudolf. 
The Abyssinian oribi has been known since RuppelFs 
early explorations in Abyssinia. The type specimen was 
obtained by one of his collectors on the Fazogloa Moun¬ 
tains, in close proximity to the Blue Nile, well down in the 
foot-hill region of the Abyssinian highlands and at the ex¬ 
treme western limit of its range. Riippell also met with it 
on the plateau region at elevations of six thousand feet or 
more. More recently Major Powell-Cotton collected speci¬ 
mens near the western edge of the highlands, west of Addis 
Abbaba and Lake Tana. The Abyssinian race resembles 
closely the Uasin Gishu race in color. Both are highland 
forms, having long, heavy coats of a bright, tawny color. 
The Abyssinian may be distinguished by its less heavily 
ringed and shorter horns. The horns are ringed for the 
basal third, the rings being quite low and less distinct than 
in the more southern race. The horn length averages four 
inches, which is one-half inch less than the Uasin Gishu race. 
From the Nile oribi this race may be recognized by its 
brighter color and longer hair, but resembles it closely in 
horn dimensions. Gilbert Blaine has recently described 
a new race founded on a specimen collected by W. N. 
