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to hunt the Addax without dogs, following it on horseback or on their 

 best camels. (Malbrant, 1936, pp. 87-88.) 



The Addax exists in the region of Timetrine [19 30' N., 30' W.] 

 and Inguezzans [19 30' N., 5 40' E.], and in Borku and Ennedi. 

 The southern limit is approximately: Chingueti [20 30' N., 13 W.], 

 Arouane [19 N., 3 30' W.], Tessalit [20 15' N., 30' E.], 

 Iferouane [19 N., 6 E.], Beduaram, Ennedi. (General Government 

 of French West Africa, in litt., November, 1936.) 



Thesiger (1939, p. 445) had native reports of great herds of Addax 

 in Erdi, to the north of Ennedi. 



Anglo -Egyptian Sudan. Brocklehurst (1931, pp. 1-2) gives the 

 following account: 



It is found in Dongola, northern Darfur, and the northern part of the 

 Kordofan Province, its most southern range being approximately 15 7' lati- 

 tude North. . . . 



Normally at the beginning of the hot weather after the southern migration 

 starts, the Addax come as far south as Jebel Teiga, but in the very dry 

 seasons, when there is little grazing in the north, they have been known to 

 come as far south as the Anke district. 



They are usually found in herds of from five to thirty; but I have seen 

 much larger herds, and on one occasion I counted considerably more than 

 400 in the course of one day's march. 



Early in 1927, I was travelling in the Bedayat country of north-western 

 Darfur on the boundary of French Equatorial Africa where I came across 

 many Addax. Those near the frontier were few and far between, besides 

 being very wary and difficult to approach, as they had been hunted by parties 

 of Arabs with dogs. Carrying enough water for six or seven days, a small party 

 of these Arabs mounted on camels and accompanied by their dogs will push 

 into the desert until they strike the fresh spoor or actually sight a herd of 

 Addax, . . . and by following the undulations of the ground, the party is able 

 to get within a few hundred yards of their quarry without being observed. 



The Addax being short-legged and heavy, is incapable of any great speed, 

 and the cows and calves are soon brought to bay, and even some of the old 

 bulls are run down and speared. 



Further to the north and east, where they are seldom disturbed, I encountered 

 several large herds. 



About 1932, north of Wadi Hawa, Dongola, tracks were common 

 and a specimen was secured (Maydon, 1932, p. 188) . 



In 1933 (?) Addax were found near the French frontier at about 

 latitude 17 N., but seemed to fade out about 16 45' N. (Shaw, 

 1933, p. 15). 



Egypt. "The Addax, formerly to be met with occasionally in 

 western Egypt, is now extinct. The last instance known, El Miralai 

 T. W. Russell Pasha, of the Egyptian Police, told me, 12 June, 1910, 

 was that of an Addax shot by an old Bedawin hunter in about the 

 year 1900 in the Mariut district, about 40 miles west of Alexandria. 



"The so-called eastern [A. n. addax] and western subspecies 

 [A. n. nasomaculatus] are untenable." (Flower, 1932, p. 441.) 



