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have been difficult to hunt in. There are probably more varieties 

 of the species than have so far been named, and it is important 

 therefore to save it from extinction wherever possible." (A. Roberts, 

 in litt., November, 1936.) 



It is fairly numerous along the Drakensberg Range and in game 

 reserves in Zululand. There are estimated to be between 200 and 

 300 of the animals. Depletion results from the gradual occupation 

 of farms. It is completely protected as Royal Game. (Administra- 

 tor's Office, Natal, in litt., December, 1936.) 



Roberts (1937, p. 783) writes: 



Formerly plentiful wherever there were hills and bush-clad ktoofs, the 

 klipspringer is becoming very scarce with the advance of settlement. It is so 

 easily shot in its haunts by driving or quiet approach of the gunman, legiti- 

 mate or otherwise, and found everywhere in such limited numbers, that per- 

 sistence in hunting it soon spells its doom there. I know of places where it 

 was once to be found, but where it was soon exterminated by the establish- 

 ment of irrigation settlements in the vicinity. In the native territories it has 

 been exterminated, too, by trapping and driving with dogs. What prospect 

 has such a very local animal of surviving against the onslaughts of cunning 

 and unscrupulous men? None whatever, unless the laws are tightened up. 



"Their principal enemies are the Leopard and the Caracal, while 

 the young not infrequently fall victims to the larger birds of prey" 

 (S. Hamilton, as quoted in Shortridge, 1934, vol. 2, p. 480). 



The remaining subspecies of Oreotragus oreotragus seem to have 

 maintained themselves in a somewhat more satisfactory numerical 

 status than the two just discussed. They comprise the following: 



0. o. cunenensis Zukowsky. 1 ANGOLA KLIPSPRINGER. Range: An- 

 gola and northern South-West Africa. 



0. o. aceratos Noack. 2 NYASA KLIPSPRINGER. Range: southern 

 Tanganyika Territory, Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, and pre- 

 sumably southeastern Belgian Congo. 



0. o. schillingsi Neumann. 3 MASAI KLIPSPRINGER. Range: north- 

 ern Tanganyika Territory to central Kenya, and west to Ruanda 

 and southwestern Uganda. 



0. o. aureus Heller. 4 MARSABIT KLIPSPRINGER. Range: north- 

 western Kenya and eastern Uganda. 



1 Oreotragus oreotragus cunenensis Zukowsky, Archiv Naturg., vol. 90, Abt. 

 A, Heft 1, p. 124, 1924. (Kambelefall, north bank of Cunene River, Angola.) 

 (0. o. steinhardti Zukowsky (1924) is regarded by Shortridge (1934, vol. 2, 

 p. 477) as a synonym.) 



2 Oreotragus aceratos Noack, Zool. Anz., vol. 22, no. 577, p. 11, 1899. (Mbem- 

 kuru region, Lindi Province, Tanganyika Territory.) 



3 Oreotragus schillingsi Neumann, Sitz.-ber. Gesell. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 

 1902, nos. 7/8, p. 170, 1902. (Donje Ngaptuk, northwest of Kilimanjaro, 

 Tanganyika Territory.) 



4 Oreotragus oreotragus aureus Heller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 61, no. 13, 

 p. 7, 1913. ("Mt. Lololokwi, north of the Northern Guaso Nyiro," Kenya.) 



