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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
buff-pink like the sides of the body with the exception of 
the knee-brushes on the forelegs, which are usually blackish 
centrally and very conspicuous. The color of the body is 
continued on to the tail as a narrow crest of cinnamon hair 
to the black tufted tip. The under-surface of the tail is 
quite hairless. The crown is bright rufous from the horn 
bases to the tip of the snout, the red color merging 
gradually on the sides to the buff-pink. Above the eye 
is a conspicuous white stripe from the horn base to 
well in front of the eye. The region below the eye is also 
whitish, as well as the lips, chin, and a median stripe extend¬ 
ing down the centre of the throat a short distance. The 
back of the ears is like the sides, buff-pink, and the inside 
is marked by a few diagonal rows of long white hairs. The 
female differs in coloration from the male by having a dark- 
brown or blackish patch on the crown and by dark tips 
and backs to the ears. The young have the dark crown 
patch of the female and are quite like their female parent in 
coloration. 
The dimensions of an adult male in the flesh were: head 
and body, 50 inches; tail, 11 inches; hind foot, 17 inches; 
ear, 5inches. The largest male skull in a series of eight 
is 9inches in greatest length. An adult female skull 
measures %% inches. Horns measuring 14 inches in length 
are not rare in British East Africa. The record is not 
greatly in excess of this average, being only 16 inches. 
The Somaliland record only exceeds this by one inch. A 
series of nineteen specimens from the Northern Guaso 
Nyiro are in the National Museum, collected by the Roose¬ 
velt and Rainey expeditions. These represent localities 
along the middle course of the river and northward in the 
desert near Mount Marsabit. Donaldson Smith has shot 
specimens much farther north at the north end of Lake 
Rudolf and others east of the lake on the headwaters of 
the Juba River. The southern limits of the range are 
marked by specimens shot in German East Africa by Schil¬ 
lings on the Pangani River south of Kilimanjaro. Hunter 
met with the gerenuk near Lake Jipe, southeast of Kil¬ 
imanjaro and also on the Tana River. Jackson records 
it as abundant on the coast at Merereni, north of the Sabaki 
River. 
