PALA OR IMPALA 



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through each eye. In the days of their abundance pala were 

 found in big troops, such as are still to be met with on the Upper 

 Zambesi, in East Mashonaland, and parts of British East and 

 Central Africa. Half a century ago, or even less, they were to 

 be found in similar numbers among the covert on the banks of 

 every river in the Transvaal and Bechuanaland ; but now it is not 

 till the northern border of the former country that they are to be 

 met with, and then only in small parties. Pala are some of the 

 fleetest of all antelopes, and are in the habit of leaping high in the 

 air ; their presence always implies the neighbourhood of water. 



Length. 



Owner. 



Lord Delamere. 

 . H. Hyde-Baker. 



Count E. Hoyos. 



Dr. A. Paget. 



Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 



C. Steuart Betton. 

 . Capt. M. M'Neill. 



A. H. Neumann. (See illustra- 

 tion.) 

 F. J. Jackson. 



. G. E. Smith. 



Major W. Anstruther Thomson. 



Lieut.-Col. \V. A. W. Lawson. 

 . Capt. H. F. T. Fisher. 



Rhys Williams. 

 . F. C. Selous. 



British Museum (Dr. Burchell). 



Julius Jeppe. 

 . Capt. C. U. Price. 



A. Bayley-Worthington. 



Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



Major A. E. Smith. 



F. H. Barber. 



