52 SJOSTBDTS K1LIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 2. 



The habits of the Bushbucks appear to rather similar all over Africa. They 

 like bushy and wooded districts which are interrupted by open grassy places but they 

 do not come out on the great plains or steppes and are seldom found far from 

 water. This mode of living makes them rather local in their habits and isolates them 

 within certain boundaries and by this the originating of new races is facilitated. 



Professor SJOSTEDT writes about the Bushbucks in the Kilimandjaro-Meru 

 district: In the surroundings of the mountains this antelope was common in certain 

 localities especially in districts which were partly wooded partly open, where greater 

 or smaller open places extended between woods with a dense growth of bushes or 

 some other kinds of forests or bush. On these open glades the Bushbucks were some- 

 times taken by surprise when they were grazing. They tried then always with great- 

 est possible speed to find shelter in the adjacent protecting bush. As a rule they 

 were found single or some few near each other, never in herds, and not readily far 

 from water. 



The old buck shot the 6th of March 1906 had in the ventricle a lot of yellow 

 aple-like fruits of a spiny Solanace, common in this district. (It was also infested 

 by nematodes and plathelminths.) 



Strepsieeros iniberhis BLYTH 



was seen a couple of times at Ngare na nyuki, Merit, where a buck was shot and 

 badly wounded 2 "/n> 1905 but could not be overtaken, although it was long pursued. 

 This antelope lived here partly on the grass steppe with scattered acacias partly in 

 the denser acacia forest at the river>< (SJOSTEDT). 



Tan rot rajriis oryx livingstonii (SCLATER). 

 (PI. 2, fig. 1 & 2.) 



Taurotragus oryx livingstonii SCLATHER & THOMAS, Book of Antelopes IV, p. 197. 



Professor SJOSTEDT did not obtain any specimen of Eland Antelope except a 

 young calf which was caught by the Massais on the steppe the 17th of July 1905 and 

 then kept in confinement for some time. This young Eland is represented in two differ 

 ent stages of its development, on PI. 2, figs. 1 and 2, as newborn and at an age of 

 about 8 months old. 



A small herd was seen on the steppe at Ngare na nyuki in Nov. 1905 in the 

 same locality where the calf had been caught some months before. 



The Elands live not only on the steppe but occur on the upper mountain 

 meadows as well, where small herds were seen by HANS MEYER at an altitude of 

 4400 in. on the vegetation-less saddle plateau between the peaks. Parts of skeletons 

 were seen at an altitude of 4500 m. near the glaciere of South Kibo and quite fresh 

 tracks at West-Mawenzi at an altitude of 47000 as far as single tufts of grass or 

 plants were to be seen.* 



