THE UNGULATES, OR HOOFED MAMMALS 



In Nyassaland, Mr. Crawshay states that they frequent sandy plains covered with 

 mimosas and low scrub near the rivers. The same writer observes that "no ante- 

 lope I have seen can compare with the impala in fleetness of foot, and certainly no 

 other can display such wonderful leaping power; they go off like the proverbial arrow 

 from the bow, and, with most beautiful gliding bounds, cover the ground, without 

 apparently the least effort. When alarmed they often give utterance to a sharp 

 bark." From its red color, the pala is known to the Dutch Boers as the roybok. 



Gordon Gumming relates that on one occasion near his camp "a loud rushing 

 noise was heard coming on like a hurricane; this was a large troop of pala pursued 





AND FEMALE OF THE BLACK BUCK. 



(One-tenth natural size.) 



by a pack of about twenty wild dogs. They passed our camp in fine style within a 

 hundred yards of us, and in a few minutes the dogs had fastened upon two of the 

 palas, which my Bechuanas ran up and secured. One of these animals cleared a dis- 

 tance of fifty feet in two successive bounds, and this on unfavorable ground, it being 

 very soft and slippery. ' ' 



Lesser Pala ^ e l esser P a ^ a is a smaller variety inhabiting part of Nyassaland, in 

 the very heart of the distributional area of the typical form from 

 which it is distinguished by its more slender skull and smaller horns. 



