RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



Skull and Head of Male Klipspringer, from specimens shot in Somaliland by Major H. G. C. Swayne. 



KLIPSPRINGrER (Oreotragus saltator). 



Alakud of the Somalis. Ikumi of the Basutos. 



Chipomco of the Chilalas. Klipbok of the Boers. 



Chinkomo of the Chinyanjas. Ligoka of the Zulus and Swazis. 



Ingululu of the Makalakas. Njerere in the Batoka country. 



Sassa of the Abyssinians. 



Not only from the other members of the oribi group, but from 

 antelopes of all kinds, the agile little klipspringer, or " rock-jumper," is 

 distinguished by the peculiar conformation of its hoofs and the structure 

 of its hair. The former are large, cylindrical, blunt, and so situated in 

 regard to the rest of the limb, that the animal walks on what corre- 

 sponds to their tips in other antelopes, the whole hoof thus rising 

 vertically from the ground. As regards the hair, this may best be 

 compared with that of the musk-deer, having the same brittle, pithy 

 structure. Lateral hoofs are retained ; the tail is reduced to a mere 

 rudimentary stump ; and the horns of the bucks rise nearly vertically 

 from the head, with a slight forward curvature, and are ringed for their 

 basal third. The speckly olive -gray hue of the fur is too well 

 known to need description. Height at shoulder from about 20 to 

 22 inches. 



Distribution. Mountainous and rocky districts in South and East Africa, 

 from the Cape northwards to Abyssinia. Klipspringer-shooting 

 is the best mountain sport to be obtained in Africa ; and a pair of 

 these active little animals bounding, as if made of indiarubber, 



