NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 



THE INYALA 



(Tragelaphus angasi) 



The Harnessed Antelope ; Angas's Bushbuck ; Inyala of Zulus 

 and Amatonga ; Bo of Nyasaland. 



The Inyala or Bastard Kudu of the Dutch colonists 

 inhabits South-East Africa from the Ingwavuma 

 River in northern Zululand to Beira and the 

 vicinity of the Shire River in Nyassaland. Accord- 

 ing to the Records of Big Game for 1914, it also 

 occurs in Angola on the west coast. 



Another species, known as the Mountain Inyala 

 {Tragelaphus buxtoni), inhabits the Sahatu Moun- 

 tains of north-western Gallaland. 



The Inyala usually frequents the low-lying, dense 

 forest country, and seldom strays far from water, of 

 which it drinks frequently, as often as three times 

 in the twenty-four hours during the dry season. 



In Portuguese East Africa Inyala are found at 

 least sixty miles from water, and Mr. Cecil Barnard, 

 a big-game hunter, tells me they can exist for months 

 without drinking. 



In these thick, damp, tangled forests these antelopes 

 live in small troops of one adult male and about 

 half-a-dozen females. At other times the females 

 with their young and the immature males herd 

 together ; the adult rams wandering about singly 

 or in small groups. When the young are about to 

 be born, the does wander off alone. Herds of as 



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