46^ A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA 



preoccupied, as Hamilton Smith had ah-eady assigned the name to Sah's 

 antelope. I do not agree with this innovation ; for although the name 

 Antilope fnadoqua has been applied to two very different antelopes, we 

 now find that they belong to two separate genera, and I maintain that 

 they must stand as follows : Salt's dik-dik, Madoqua saltiana, and tlie 

 Abyssinian duiker, Cephalophus madoqua. 



I\Ir. Powell-Cotton's magnificent series of twenty-seven specimens shows 

 immense variation in the colour of the hair and shape of skulls, but it would 

 require many more skulls from every part of Abyssinia to determine if there 

 are several local races. 



" First seen at Turkogogo, and then more or less throughout the high- 

 lands of Gojam and away north to near Simien ; occasionally in pairs, but 

 far more frequently single ; only once three together, a pair and kid. 



" If the sportsman is indifferent as to sex, he will not find them difficult 

 shooting, as they do not usually go far when disturbed, and soon begin to 

 feed again, if not followed immediately. 



"The upright tuft of hair on the forehead of the females and young males 

 is so prominent that, at a little distance, it can hardly be distinguished from 

 the short horns of the old bucks, placed, as these are, close together ; in 

 them the tuft of hair has almost gone. I shot a female on 14th May igoo 

 that carried an unborn kid about eight or ten days from birth. 



" No. 133, shot on the foot-hills west of the ridge that divides the Lake 

 Tana basin from the low hot country towards the Soudan, was the one 

 killed at the lowest elevation. I saw none actually in the plains, either 

 here or towards Metemmeh." 



