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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
owing to the narrow white hair tips. The sides of the body 
are somewhat lighter, but the dorsal color is sharply defined 
against the white breast and belly. The legs are less pink¬ 
ish than the body, usually being uniform cinnamon-buff, 
with the inside white as far down as the knees and hocks. 
The tail is very short, triangular in shape, and not differen¬ 
tiated by color or length of hair from the rump. The lower 
surface is naked. The hinder surfaces of the thighs are white 
in contrast to the sorrel sides, the hair on this portion of 
the body being lengthened considerably and forming a rump 
patch. The crown of the head is bright tawny, and is 
marked by a narrow, dark-brown crescent between the ears. 
The midline of the snout is marked by a triangular-shaped, 
seal-brown patch which extends from the muzzle half-way 
to the eyes. The sides of the head are vinaceous, and the 
eye is surrounded by a white ring. The lips, chin, and upper 
throat are white. The ears are grayish, margined narrowly 
by dark-brown; the back covered by short, buffy hair, and 
the inside by lines of long, white hair. 
Specimens in the flesh average 33 inches in length of 
head and body; tail, inches; hind foot, 10 inches; ear, 
4^ inches. Length of skull, 5^ inches. The largest skull 
in a series of forty specimens is that of a female, which has a 
length of inches. The horns average about 3^ inches in 
length. The record in the National Museum is a specimen 
with horns 5 inches in length, shot by Sir Alfred Pease at 
his farm in the Mua Hills. Ward’s record for British East 
Africa exceeds this specimen by J/& of an inch. 
The steinbok is very abundantly distributed over the 
high veldt region of British East Africa, but does not occur 
in the dry desert scrub of the nyika. The vertical range 
extends from three thousand to nine thousand feet. Speci¬ 
mens have been examined from the Kapiti and Loita Plains, 
northern slopes of Mount Kenia, Lake Naivasha, and the 
Kedong Valley. The steinbok is peculiarly uniform in col¬ 
oration throughout its range and is not separable into ge¬ 
ographical races in British East Africa. 
