. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . gazing in the wkong direction (wateebuck). picked up view as he left the woods, and, changing hiscourse, came cantering back across an open prairietowards our rear. Then, by fortunate chance, he spiedmy brother, who, with the boys, had remainedbehind. The game pulled up sharp, his magnificent car-riage and contour recalling a colossal red stag in Land-seers bravest type. The intervening plain was dottedwith isolated forest-trees, each springing from a bushy ENDERIT RIVER AND LAKE NAKURU 23 base, and while this s
. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . gazing in the wkong direction (wateebuck). picked up view as he left the woods, and, changing hiscourse, came cantering back across an open prairietowards our rear. Then, by fortunate chance, he spiedmy brother, who, with the boys, had remainedbehind. The game pulled up sharp, his magnificent car-riage and contour recalling a colossal red stag in Land-seers bravest type. The intervening plain was dottedwith isolated forest-trees, each springing from a bushy ENDERIT RIVER AND LAKE NAKURU 23 base, and while this splendid animal stood fixedly gazingin the wrong direction, I succeeded, by creeping andrunning from tree to tree, in gaining a range of justunder 300 yards. Then, in happy moment, I droppedhim clean with a 303 bullet in the base of the prize proved to be a Sing-sing waterbuck bull. WOUNDED WATEEBUCK. (defassa), carrying horns of 28j ins. What haddeceived me was the abnormal breadth of horn. These,not being set regularly, reached the extraordinary spanof 30 ins. between tips—a measurement exceeding anygiven in Rowland Wards Records. I killed anothersing-sing bull a few days later, but in that animal,though the horns reached 27|- ins., the span betweentips was under a foot. In his dark, shaggy coat, withwhich the white collar and facial markings so stronglycontrast, the sino-sino- is an altooether handsomeranimal than the common waterbuck. Both species 24 ON SAFARI are irou-grey in colour, the sing-sing perhaps sHghtlybrowner than Cohtis ellipsijDrymnus; but the colourshown in the plate of C. defassa in the Booh ofAntelopes (vol. ii, plate xxxvi) is wrong, unless theseasonal range of colour is very great. A w^hite bandsurrounds each fetlock immediately above the hoof, andis conspicuous at a considerable distance. The dead-weight of this animal would be about 500
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