KUDU 347 



Up the Majili river, which runs into the Zambesi from the north near 

 Shesheke, Mr. Pirie met with kudu in small numbers ; while to the 

 eastward and close to the Zambesi Livingstone mentions coming 

 across them in abundance, although this was on the banks of the 

 river, and the only place north of the latter where any one seems to 

 have found them in any number. Kudu were also seen by Elton on 

 the west side of the Shire river, near the Lesungvve. Mr. Crawshay 

 states that they are widely distributed through the whole of Nyasaland, 

 especially in the rugged wooded highlands, and gives many localities 

 where he has either personally seen them or is certain that they exist, 

 from Cape Maclear at the south end of Nyasa, along the western 

 shores of that lake. Farther west, in the neighbourhood of Lakes 

 Mweru and Bangweolo, they appear to be unknown. 



" Little has been written about the country between Lake Nyasa 

 and Ujiji or Lake Tanganyika, or of the districts due east of Nyasa, 

 so that there is nothing known about the distribution of kudu in 

 those regions. Sir H. M. Stanley shot one in Ukonongo on the road 

 to Ujiji ; and Speke and Grant saw some in Ugojo and Ukuni in 

 E. long. '}i'^° \ but as no other traveller seems to have met with or 

 mentioned them from these countries, they are evidently rare and 

 local. In British East Africa kudu are very rare and still more local. 

 From Mombasa the first locality seems to be in the Teita district ; 

 Mr. F. J. Jackson observing that there are always a few in the Teita 

 country west of Ndara and Kissigao, and on the banks of the Tzavo, 

 down which the species ranges from the head-waters to the Sahaki, 

 and then north up the Athi river. Count Teleki shot two kudu near 

 Lake Hannington, a few miles south of Lake Baringo ; and Mr. A. H. 

 Neumann found a skull at one of his camps under the Jambeni range, 

 at the head of the Mackenzie river, which runs into the Tana. Others 

 were seen by the latter gentleman, as well as a good deal of spoor on 

 the west side of Mount Nyiro, at the south end of Lake Rudolf. 

 Dr. Donaldson Smith saw a single kudu at El Madu in about 41' 

 E. long, and 4° N. lat. Schweinfurth never mentions having seen 

 kudu in his wanderings among the western tributaries of the Nile ; 

 and it is doubtful if it occurs anywhere to the west of the main river. 

 It was, however, abundant in Abyssinia, on the banks of the Settik, 

 so late as 1878." 



Of these antelopes in Somaliland Mr. J. D. Inverarity writes as 

 follows : — 



" I never saw kudu away from the Golis range, although I have 

 observed them at the foot of those hills. I have seen their tracks 



