. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. 3i8 BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA in the North Nyasa district by Mr. G. A. Taylor. It undoubtedly occurs on the east coast of Lake Nyasa for it has been shot there by Major Frank Trollope. To the west of Nyasaland it is the common Hippotragine species and its range probably extends north and east to the Egyptian Sudan and thence westward across Nigeria to Senegambia. A third species of Hippotragus —the Blaubok—was a bluish-grey in colour and more uni
. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. 3i8 BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA in the North Nyasa district by Mr. G. A. Taylor. It undoubtedly occurs on the east coast of Lake Nyasa for it has been shot there by Major Frank Trollope. To the west of Nyasaland it is the common Hippotragine species and its range probably extends north and east to the Egyptian Sudan and thence westward across Nigeria to Senegambia. A third species of Hippotragus —the Blaubok—was a bluish-grey in colour and more uniform in tint with longer hair and in some respects more suggestive of the Cobus antelopes. Like many other remarkable creatures in South Africa it was promptly exterminated by the European settlers. Probably evolving from some Cervicaprine form we have the beautiful pallah, or mpala antelope {sEpyceros melampus), the shape of whose horns will be shown in the accompanying drawing which however illustrates the small Nyasa- land The coloration of the pallah is a rich dark chestnut with a white stomach and a black longitudinal mark in the front of the feet. It also is. A ROAN ANTELOPE (Hippolragus equinns) marked by a black tuft of hair on the inner side of the hind legs below the tarsus. The lesser pallah, a variety named after myself because I happened to send home the first specimens, is the one usually met with in Nyasaland, the larger pallah being found in the regions to the west and east. The accompany- ing illustration is the head of Johnston's pallah which differs from the more typical animal in the smaller size of the horns and body. Mr. Sharpe states that in his opinion the pallah all over Central Africa affects a special kind of country —forested plains with open glades of short grass not far removed from water. The Nyasaland Gnu or Wildebeest would appear to be a new species. Hitherto it has been treated as a new variety of the Blue Wildebeest {Con- nocl
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