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seems to be the southerly limit of its range. It frequents the densely 

 bushed parts of the low flats between the coast and the Bombo 

 range. How far north it ranges I cannot say, but I first heard of it 

 in the neighbourhood of the Lower Limpopo and Komati rivers." 



"It was very common in the neighbourhood of Delagoa Bay, but is 

 getting scarcer every year, owing chiefly to native poachers" (Haag- 

 ner, 1920, p. 183) . 



In the Mkuzi Reserve, Natal, "50-100 Suni (Livingstone antelope) 

 are estimated to exist" (Potter, Ann. Rept., 1933). 



"The Hluhluwe [Reserve, Natal,] contains . . . the almost ex- 

 tinct Livingstone antelope" (George G. Campbell, in Hit., January 

 9,1933). 



In Natal it is found at present only in the northern part of Zulu- 

 land, including the Mkuzi and Ndumu Reserves, where there are 

 between 50 and 100 of the animals. The cause of depletion is illegal 

 destruction by the natives. Full protection is given in the game 

 reserves. (Administrator's Office, Natal, in litt., December, 1936.) 



It is not recorded from the Transvaal, but occurs across the 

 Lebombo Mountains in Portuguese East Africa. In northern Zulu- 

 land it occurs in diminishing numbers. (Austin Roberts, in litt., 

 November, 1936.) Elsewhere Roberts (1937, p. 783) says: 



This tiny, graceful antelope is a tropical one that comes within our limits 

 only in the scrub of the littoral in north-eastern Zululand, where it is much 

 harassed by the natives, and has a poor prospect of survival if not more 

 rigidly protected than it is. Fortunately, there are the Mkusi and Ndumu 

 Game Reserves, in which it enjoys a great measure of protection; but there 

 has been so much talk of doing away with these game reserves that I feel 

 very uneasy as to its survival if that step is taken. It occurs beyond our 

 limits northwards to East Africa, but is nowhere common. These small ante- 

 lopes are all easily trapped by natives with nooses and steel gins, and were 

 it possible to stop this method of destruction it would probably increase 

 considerably in numbers. 



[Comparatively little information is available concerning the 

 numerical status of the northern subspecies or Livingstone's Suni 

 (Nesotragus living stonianus living stoni anus Kirk *) , but it has ap- 

 parently fared somewhat better than the Zulu Suni. It ranges north 

 to Nyasaland and the northern part of Portuguese East Africa.] 



iNesvtragus living stonianus Kirk, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864, p. 657, 

 1865. ("Shupanga and Lupata," Zambesi River, Portuguese East Africa; the 

 type locality is shown by Lydekker and Elaine (1914, vol. 2, p. 164) to be 

 Shupanga.) 



