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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
inches in cuninghamei and 21 inches in bohmi. The great¬ 
est width of the oblique stripes on the hind quarters on granti 
is 3 inches, while in cuninghamei their width is only 2 
inches, but in bohmi they are greatest of all, being 3^ inches. 
The amount of actual color variation is slight but the color 
pattern is extremely variable in certain parts, especially in 
the region of the dorsal stripe and on the pasterns, that is, 
the part of the leg immediately above the hoof. Usually the 
dorsal stripe is bordered for its whole length by a white 
stripe so that the lateral stripes do not unite with it. But 
there is every intermediate condition from such an un¬ 
broken dorsal stripe to one which unites with practically 
all of the transverse and oblique stripes on the loins and 
rump. The pastern region varies, independent of age or 
sex, from a fully striped condition, in which the margin of 
the hoof is marked by a broad whitish border, to a condi¬ 
tion in which the lower half of the pastern is solid black 
and the light band immediately above the hoof wholly 
absent. There appears to be a fairly well-marked sexual 
color difference in the nose, which in the males is black 
only at the tip about the nostrils and the lips and bright 
tan posteriorly between the nostrils and the tips of the 
narrow forehead stripes. This area in the females is usually 
black like the nostril area, the whole snout being black. 
Shadow stripes occur on but a very small per cent of the 
specimens. In a series of fourteen males from the Loita 
Plains only two show shadow stripes, and in these they are 
confined to faint traces on the hind quarters. One female 
in a series of eight from the same locality shows shadow 
stripes similar in distinctness and position. The shadow 
stripes are individual affairs and are no more prevalent in 
the young than in adults, as witnessed in a series of three 
newly born young in which indications of shadow stripes 
are present in only one of the specimens. The lesser width 
of the stripes on the hind quarters, which is one of the 
characters of the highland form, shows less variation than 
the same dimension in the dorsal or the neck stripes. The 
oblique stripes on the hind quarters vary in different indi¬ 
viduals in greatest width from 2^ to 3 yi inches, the dorsal 
stripe from 2^ to 5^2 inches, and the broadest neck stripe 
from 2to 4 inches. One of the distinctive features of this 
