. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . LESSER KOODOO. (Marquis de la Scala.). Arr/ar, 18-FT. PYTHON WITH \\ATEKBUCK CALF IT HAD KILLED. STRAY NOTES 293 wliat he told me) had only once seen an elephantlying. I cannot call to mind ever seeing either wildebeestsor zebras do so in East Africa; though several suchinstances recur to memory in the case of sing-sing,waterbuck, gazelles, and (more rarely) of hartebeestsand impala. The habit is more or less casual andaccidental—not as in Europe, where one sees the deer(of all kinds), and goats also,
. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . LESSER KOODOO. (Marquis de la Scala.). Arr/ar, 18-FT. PYTHON WITH \\ATEKBUCK CALF IT HAD KILLED. STRAY NOTES 293 wliat he told me) had only once seen an elephantlying. I cannot call to mind ever seeing either wildebeestsor zebras do so in East Africa; though several suchinstances recur to memory in the case of sing-sing,waterbuck, gazelles, and (more rarely) of hartebeestsand impala. The habit is more or less casual andaccidental—not as in Europe, where one sees the deer(of all kinds), and goats also, regularly lie down byday. On writing to my brother to confirm or confutethese remarks, he replies : It seems to me c[uitecorrect. One never sees game asleep. The bestinstance I can remember was on the Molo at Ya-Nabanda, where, to the west of the river, I found acompany of Jacksons hartebeests all lying down on abare patch of red soil that exactly assimilated with theirown colour. The details impressed themselves on mymemory; for when I had stalked to within 250 yards,there intervened a belt of long grass through
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