BOHOR REEDBUCK 



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the base, and the points either curve forwards and inwards, or are 

 directed straight upwards. 



Writing of the Sudan race, Major Powell-Cotton observes that 

 these reedbuck " generally lie down among the long grass by a stream 

 during mid-day. I tried walking them up, but they always broke too 

 far ahead for a shot, and, if you went forward, they would drop into 

 the water-course and get away. If they sight danger at a good 

 distance when feeding in 



the open, they will lie down \ 



by any tuft of grass, so it 

 is as well to mark the place 

 very carefully before starting 

 a stalk, and even if they 

 have disappeared go right 

 to it. On very open ground 

 I once or twice had them 

 moved successfully to me, 

 I saw them down in the hot 

 country at Shimerler Jowee, 

 but only shot a small one, 

 which I did not keep. 

 They are found at Zoquala, 

 below Adis Ababa. When- 

 ever they are near a trade- 

 route or large town, they 

 are much shot at, and con- 

 sequently very hard to 

 approach." 



Of the Uganda race, Mr, 

 F, J. Jackson observes that 

 it was common in 1887 in 

 " the Kilimanjaro district, 



along the banks of the Wevi-Wevi river, and there were also a few 

 on the edge of a large swamp east of the Rombo plains. Farther 

 north there are a fair number in the marshy ground north of Lake 

 Eliniteita, and on the eastern slopes of the Mau escarpment in the 

 vicinity of the Ravine Station, at an altitude of 7500 feet. Its real 

 home is, however, the rolling grassy downs of the Mau plateau, where 

 it is very abundant along the courses of the numerous streams which 

 flow into the Nzoia river. The country is very undulating, and 

 the small streams running along the hollows in the low-lying places 



• Fig. 47. — Head of Sudan Bohor Reedbuck, from the 

 Blue Nile. 



