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locality u /a 1905. 1 bull from the same locality 23 / 3 1905. 1 young bull (the 



only one of that age seen) from the Kibonoto steppe 17 /io 1905. 



All adult specimens are provided with brown or blackish brown, irregularly 

 arranged, transversal stripes on the neck and anterior part of the body. In some 

 specimens there are also some similar but shorter stripes, and spots on the belly and 

 posterior parts. The ground colour is bluish grey. The young bull is not striped 

 and its beard is not white but grizzled grey. 



This Gnu lives sometimes in great herds on the grass steppe between Kili- 

 mandjaro and Meru but old bulls are often seen alone. 



To give an idea about the abundance of Gnu and other big game that happily 

 enough still prevails on the steppes at Ngare nairobi and Ngare na nyuki (PL 4, 

 fig. 1) the following lines may be quoted from SJOSTEDT'S diary: We are soon in the 

 midst of herds of Gnu, Zebra, Grant's Gazelles, Thomson's Gazelles and Kongonis. It 

 is a view such as I did not ever hope to behold with my own eyes. Indeed, until a 

 short time ago I thought that such a thing only belonged to the fiction. In every 

 direction I may look I perceive, Gnus, Zebras, Gazelles and Kongonis. The Gnus 

 stand in a long irregular row, in the middle divided by a herd of Zebras counting 

 60 80 heads. To the left they are more scattered over the slope of a valley, to 

 the right they form a long front line, most of them turning their horns and black 

 faces towards us. They number about 80 in each herd. In the beginning dusk, and 

 in consequence of their great number they are so little shy that they allow me to 

 advance within a distance of two-three hundred feet and to inspect them where 

 they were standing like a herd of cattle. It was too beautiful to be disturbed ! But. 

 now they begin to move. The Zebras trot up the slight slope, gather together again, 

 exhibiting in their striped garb an elegance of form a picture of exquisite beauty. 

 After them the Gnus come whipping with their tails and with lowered heads 

 they trot in the same direction, stop, turn round forming a front line, wheel round 

 again and disappear in a cloud of dust on the top of the low hill. We follow, and 

 arrived at the upper end of the slope we behold a view which was the most remark- 

 able scenery I ever have seen. Several herds had already been gathered here before 

 with those the new ones had associated. Gnus and Zebras were there in hundreds, 

 the nearest within quite short distance, some quietly grazing, others listening with 

 their heads turned in our direction. > 



Cephalophus (Sylvicapra) abyssiiiien* THOMAS. 

 Cephalophus abyssinicus THOMAS. SCLATEK & THOMAS : Book of Antelopes. I, p. 199. 



Kilimandjaro : 1 young kid caught by the natives at Kibonoto, 19 /s 1905. 

 1 female from the Natron lakes, 27 /4 1906. 



To judge from the dimensions it appears more probable that the latter speci- 

 men belongs to the smaller northern variety than to the southern C. grinnnia (LiN.) 

 but as it is a female and the skull is lost there is not full certainty about it. Most 

 probable the most correct view is to make a separate subspecies for the Duiker of the 



