. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . ith each other andcomparatively approximated. The largest horns measure 22f inches inlength over the front curve. Between the hoofs of the fore-feet there is a hairy cul de sac, about 2inches in length. Habitat.—East Africa, north of Sabi River, through Nyasaland andMozambique to Usagara opposite Zanzibar. - The late Dr. Wilhelm Peters discovered this antelope during his travelsin Mozambique in 1842 to 1848. Sir John Kirk in 1864 found itplentiful on the banks of the Zambesi in the dry season. ThroughoutNyasaland, in the flat
. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . ith each other andcomparatively approximated. The largest horns measure 22f inches inlength over the front curve. Between the hoofs of the fore-feet there is a hairy cul de sac, about 2inches in length. Habitat.—East Africa, north of Sabi River, through Nyasaland andMozambique to Usagara opposite Zanzibar. - The late Dr. Wilhelm Peters discovered this antelope during his travelsin Mozambique in 1842 to 1848. Sir John Kirk in 1864 found itplentiful on the banks of the Zambesi in the dry season. ThroughoutNyasaland, in the flat open country, whether in the riverine valleys orelevated plateaux, it is everywhere in evidence—in small parties of fromfour to eighteen animals, always on the alert and constantly in the alarmed these antelopes are often very inquisitive, and they willpause in their awkward, lumbering canter, sometimes even after they have 1 From Messrs. Sclater and Oldrield Thomass description in Tie Book of Antelopes. - Ibid. Great &. Small Game of Africa. Pl. Hunters Hartcbccst Head. 5. Blcsbok Head. Korrigum Hartcbccst Head. 6. Sassaby or Tscsscbc Head. Topi Hartebccst Head. 7. Impala Head. Bontcbok Head. 8. Angolan Impala Head. Lichtensteins Hartebeest 165 been shot at, and turn half round to have a look at you. They retreat inIndian file, and each troop has a recognised leader, generally an oldfemale, and if this pilot is knocked over several can be shot. It is theirhabit to feed in circles and return to the same spots to page, so thatif you know the ground you can often come across them in this way. Both sexes have been shot with dried mud on their horns, so that theydoubtless kneel and wallow in damp spots like the blue wildebeest ; thefact that the cranial cavities are infested with dipterous larvae may inducethis habit. The calf is at first dun brown, with a black line down the centre of theback, and has not a trace of the yellowish blaze on the rump ; it is veryswif
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