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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
Masailand Klipspringer 
Oreotragus oreotragus schillingsi 
Native Name: Masai, engine. 
Oreotragus schillingsi Neumann, 1902, Sitz.-Ber. Ges. Nat. Freu., Berl., p. 172. 
Range. —From the Rift Valley in central German East 
Africa northward to Lake Baringo and the southern slopes 
of Mount Kenia, east to the southern shores of the Victoria 
Nyanza, and west to the lower edge of the highland country, 
at least as far as Kitui and Makindu. Altitudinal range 
from three thousand to nine thousand feet. 
The Masailand klipspringer was named for Herr Schil¬ 
lings, the pioneer flash-light photographer of Africa, who has 
given us a vivid pictorial account in “With Flashlight and 
Rifle” of his exploits with the game animals of the Kili¬ 
manjaro district of German East Africa. He secured the 
type specimens on the small hill of Ngaptuk, situated north¬ 
west of Kilimanjaro and very close to the British East Africa 
boundary. Jackson was the first sportsman to report the 
klipspringer from British East Africa. In 1894, in “Big 
Game Shooting,” he devotes a few lines to it and states that 
it is irregularly distributed upon rocky hills from the Taita 
district to the Turkwell River. The klipspringer, however, 
has been long known to inhabit South Africa and Abyssinia, 
the two extreme points of its range. 
The Masailand klipspringer is at once distinguishable 
from all other races by the presence of horns in the female. 
This striking character was not known to the describer of 
the race, Herr Neumann, who based his differences on slight 
color discriminations. His material consisted of some un- 
sexed skins with horned skulls which, he assumed, were all 
males, owing to the presence of the horns. The females are 
as well horned as the males; in fact, the longest-horned 
specimen in the series of twelve in the National Museum 
is that of a female shot by Kermit Roosevelt on the 
western edge of the Loita Plains. None of the females 
show rudimentary horns or any evidence of transition to 
the hornless condition of the races inhabiting the country 
north or south of them, nor do the females of such races 
show any trace of horns, not even such slight evidence as 
