718 



EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



In Zululand "there are more than 1000 Nyala in the two Game 

 Reserves [Hluhluwe and Mkuzi] and some 200 or so on the private 

 farms in the False Bay and Mkuzi sections" (H. B. Potter, Game 

 Conservator, Ann. Kept, for 1934). Charter (1934, p. 3) reports 

 160 of the animals in the Hluhluwe Reserve, and 750 in the Mkuzi 

 Reserve. 



FIG. 67. Nyala (Tragelaphi 



angasii). After Sclater and Thomas, 1900. 



The number in northeastern Zululand is estimated at 700 to 1,000. 

 Three-quarters of this number are found in the Ndumu, Hluhluwe, 

 and Mkuzi Reserves. Depletion has been gradual; reduction has 

 been necessary owing to the spread of nagana. Fuller protection is 

 now accorded. (Administrator's Office, Natal, in litt., December, 

 1936.) 



Portuguese East Africa. From Zululand the range extends north- 

 ward through Portuguese territory for some 40 miles to the Nim- 

 peluzi River, and from west to east between the Lebombo and 

 Maputa Rivers, a distance of some 30 miles. Probably the next few 



