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years will see the extinction of the species in Portuguese East Africa 

 south of Delagoa Bay, where it has been systematically destroyed by 

 the natives for many years. It is next met with 200 miles north of 

 Nimpeluzi in the Portuguese provinces of Gazaland and Inhambane 

 not far from latitude 24 S. Here, as in the Maputa district, the 

 animals are far from numerous. In 1908 the species was discovered 

 on the Inyamapuzi River in Gorongoza north of Beira. (Stevenson- 

 Hamilton, 1912, pp. 134-136.) 



"In 1921 two parties . . . went with waggons into the Portuguese 

 territory, near the Rhodesian border, and killed, one 400, and the 

 other 250, head of big game nearly all sable and inyala within 

 two months" ("Sabi," 1922, p. 43) . 



Transvaal. In Kruger National Park the opening of a road along 

 the Pafuri River "has enabled tourists to see them very frequently. 

 ... A few have probably been killed by lions, leopards, and wild 

 dogs, but the species continues to increase satisfactorily." (Ann. 

 Rept., Kruger National Park, 1934.) 



"Within recent years there was also quite a number in the Zout- 

 pansberg district on the Limpopo, but these have now disappeared" 

 (Hone, 1933, p. 42) . 



The number in Kruger National Park is estimated at 100 (War- 

 den, Kruger National Park, in litt., December, 1936) . 



Nyasaland. "The inyala ... is rare in British Central Africa. 

 The only district in which it has yet been found is that bordering on 

 the Shire River, from Port Herald up to the Murchison Cataracts 



"They were not known to exist in this part of Africa till 189i." 

 (Sharpe, in Bryden, 1899, pp. 460-461.) 



Wood (in Maydon, 1932, pp. 317-324) writes of the Nyala in this 

 region : 



In our borders it is only known to exist in two localities, near Chiromo 

 and near Chikwawa. In both places their numbers are very limited and 

 Government has wisely proclaimed their breeding haunts as Game Reserves. 

 But animals are often found at certain seasons outside the boundaries of 

 these reserves. . . . 



The African Hunting Dog (Lycaon pictus) must take heavy toll of Nyala 

 in Nyasaland. On several occasions I have found skeletons of both sexes 

 which would appear to have been killed by them, and early one morning 

 found them at the very deed. . . . 



Also natives have brought in horns of Nyala found dead and presumably 

 killed by Dogs. They are a terrible scourge in that forest country surround- 

 ing the main jungles .... 



They [Leopards] must often succeed in killing Nyala, in particular cows 

 and calves, and, with Hunting Dog, are the obvious natural check to their 

 increase. 



