354 



AFRICAN NATURE NOTES 



Moffat, Dr. Robert, on the languages 



spoken in vSouth African, 332 

 Molipololi, hunters from, 208 

 Molopo river, buffaloes found near 



the, 136 

 Moose, colouring of, in winter, 11 ; 



keen sense of hearing of the, 31 

 Mossel Bay, buffaloes found at, 136 

 Moufflon of Sardinia, colour of, 7 

 Museum, Natural History', at South 



Kensington, hybrid antelope at, 36 ; 



giraffe at, 218 ; gemsbuck at, 261 

 Mweru, Lake, 65 



Nakuru, Lake, 5 ; zebras near, 21 

 Nansen, raven not noticed by, in the 



Arctic regions, 42 n. 

 Napier, David, his experience with a 



black rhinoceros, 187 

 Natal, bushbucks found in, 31 

 Ndorobos, their way of killing rhino- 

 ceroses, 197 

 Neumann, A. H., quotation from, on 



rhinoceroses, 196 ; on the giraffe's 



absence of voice, 211 ; on the giraffe, 



218 

 Neumann's hartebeest. See Harte- 



beest 

 N'gami, Lake, the Batauwana tribe 



at, 161 

 Notwani river, 136 

 Nyasa, Lake, Captain Faulkner's 



journey to, 227 

 Nyasaland, skins sent from, by Sir 



Alfred Sharpe, 226 



Okavango river, disappearance of 

 buffaloes and tse-tse flies on the, 161 



Orange river, blesboks found near 

 the, 38 ; buffaloes found near the, 



136 



Oribis, small antelope, 16 



Oswell, William Cotton, buffaloes 

 found by, near the Molopo, 136; 

 on the tse - tse flies in Northern 

 Transvaal, 1845, 151 ; his visit to 

 Sebitwane, 1853, 163 ; his rhino- 

 ceros hunting, 1844, 1853, 1^2; 

 on the borili rhinoceros, 183 ; and 

 the chetah, 201 



Ovampoland, Andersson hunting in, 

 184 



Ox, musk, colouring of the, 9 ; 

 changeless coat of the, 41 



Paintings, rock-, in Mashunaland and 



Manicaland, 336 

 Palapye, hunters from, 208 

 Pandamatenka, 154 



Panyami river, 135 



Parenti, Mr., and Mr. Ryall's death, 



Patterson, Colonel, his experiences 



with two man-eaters, 49 

 Pembroke Castle, the, author's speci- 

 mens sent over on, 253 

 Pest. See Rinderpest 

 Philips, G. A., number of hyaenas 



poisoned with strychnine in one 



night by, 107 

 Pigmy Bushmen, 337 

 Pigs, immunity of, from tse-tse fly 



disease, 173 

 Pongolo river, inyalas near, 225 

 Prongbuck of North America, the 



" crysanthemum " of the, xvi 

 Pungwe river, lions with manes found 



near the, 81 ; abundant game in the 



district of the, 88 



Quagga, extinct in South Africa, 130 

 Quito river. See Chobi 



Ramokwebani river, 82 



Raven, not an Arctic bird, 42 n. 



Reedbuck, small antelope 16 ; killed 

 by the author, 235 



Reid, Percy, his kindness to an old 

 hyrena, no ; letter from, concerning 

 tse-tse flies, 157 



Restlessness of wild animals, 19, 42 



Revue river, 96 ; tse-tse flies on the, 

 1891, 173 



Rhinoceros, coming to drink, 113; 

 hycenas and the, 114; calf killed 

 by hyaenas, 116; white, driven 

 away from the author's camp, 272 ; 

 wonderful escape of a black, 273 



Rhinoceroses, black and white, 

 scarcity of the, 131, 179; plentiful 

 in 1873, 132 ; Sir Corwallis Harris 

 and the, 1836, 180 ; Mr. Oswell's 

 hunting the, 182 ; borili and keitloa, 

 183 ; differences between the white 

 and the black, 185 ; commercial 

 value of horns of, increased in c. 

 1880, 188 ; supposed charges of, 

 190 ; explanation of the charges of, 

 192 ; killed by crocodiles, 201 



Rhodesia, North- Western, scarcity of 

 rhinoceroses in, 195 



Rhodesia, Southern, countries in- 

 cluded in, 293 



Richardson, Sir Cornwallis Harris's 

 companion in his hunting expedi- 

 tion in South Africa, 1836, 180 



Rinderpest, in 1896, 30, 135 ; Dr. 

 Koch and the epidemic of, 137 



