The book of antelopes . ng the KilimanjaroExpedition of 1884. Mr. F. J. Jackson, in his notes on Antelopes publishedin the first volume of Big Game Shooting of the Badminton Library, tellsus that the Pallah is not met with in the coast-district of British East Africa. But it occurs in small herds about 60 miles inland, and is plentiful at Addaand in the Teita country, and is found as far north as Turkwel in suitablelocalities, that is, in park-like open bush and thinly-wooded country, not farfrom water. The best heads, Mr. Jackson says, are obtained between 23 Lakes Navaisha and Baringo, parti
The book of antelopes . ng the KilimanjaroExpedition of 1884. Mr. F. J. Jackson, in his notes on Antelopes publishedin the first volume of Big Game Shooting of the Badminton Library, tellsus that the Pallah is not met with in the coast-district of British East Africa. But it occurs in small herds about 60 miles inland, and is plentiful at Addaand in the Teita country, and is found as far north as Turkwel in suitablelocalities, that is, in park-like open bush and thinly-wooded country, not farfrom water. The best heads, Mr. Jackson says, are obtained between 23 Lakes Navaisha and Baringo, particularly in the vicinity of the small salt-lake Elmatita, where these beautiful beasts inhabit the open woods ofjuniper-trees. In his paper on the Antelopes of the Mau district, recentlyread before the Zoological Society, Mr. Jackson likewise speaks of thisAntelope, and again mentions the large size of the horns of the bucks inthat part of British East Africa, which he gives as 22 and 23 inches from base to tip. Fig. Head of Pallah, $ , front view. Whether the Pallah ranges further north than British East Africa and theneighbouring district of Turkwel is perhaps not quite certain, though it maypossibly be the case. Our only authority on the subject is Heuglin, whostates that the Pallah occurs on the White Nile at Scherk-el-Akaba, and is very common on the Djur River, where it is known by the Arabic nameof Om-gaba, or Om-saba. But Heuglins observations on this point, so 24 far as Ave know, have not been confirmed, and we have never seen specimensfrom this locality. On the whole, therefore, we consider JEpijceros melampus to be a wide-ranging species, extending from Bechuanaland in the south throughoutthe eastern side of Africa to British East Africa on the north, and perhapsreaching even to the White Nile. But over all these districts there is acertain amount of variety amongst the specimens, and we are not, therefore,at present inclined to recognize, even as subspecies, wha
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