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the last fifty years, still remains fairly abundant in 

 South Africa beyond the Tropic of Capricorn. It has 

 not yet disappeared from the Bakwena and Bakatla 

 countries of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, or even 

 from the western part of the Barolong country, in 

 British Bechuanaland, and still lingers in the dense 

 bush east and west of the Limpopo river. All over 

 Khama's country it is to be found — even to within a 

 short distance — a few hours' ride — of the capital, 

 Palachwe. In Matabeleland and Mashonaland it is 

 common — in Mashonaland, indeed, one of the com- 

 monest antelopes. In the forest and bush country 

 fringing the southern bank of the Botletli river, 

 Ngamiland, and thence northward to the Zambesi, in 

 suitable localities, this antelope ranges freely, and 

 seems likely to defy extermination for some time to 

 come. 



I first heard of the koodoo some years ago as far 

 south as the densely jungled country about the Great 

 Winterhoek mountains, not very far from Uitenhage 

 in the Eastern Province of Cape Colony. Occasion- 

 ally they wandered through the mountains as far as 

 the Witteberg range bordering the south-eastern 

 corner of the Great Karroo. Once or twice, even, 

 solitary individuals were found on rocky ground on 

 the Karroo itself, at Eiet Fontein, the estate of the 

 late Mr. J. B. Evans, the well-known goat and ostrich 

 farmer. It is a pleasure to know that since those 



