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the sable tinged here and there with chestnut ; the 

 under parts are snow white, the forehead and face 

 dark brown, striped first with white, then with light 

 brown ; the chin and jaws are white. The 

 brownish-black mane, so notable in this species, 

 is thick and upstanding. The tail is black. The 

 females are much lighter and browner coated than 

 the males, and carry horns considerably inferior in 

 size. The Boers, in their rough and ready way, 

 christened this antelope Swart-wit-pens that is, 

 " black with white belly." Native names are, in 

 Bechuana, Potoquane (south), Qualata inchu (north) ; 

 Matabele, Umtjiele ; Makalaka, Pala-Pala ; Mashona, 

 Inquarati and Maraballa ; Zulu and Swazi, Impala 

 impala ; Masarwa bushmen, Solupe. It is very 

 singular that the Swahilis of East Africa, who are 

 far removed from Southern Africa and its native 

 races, call this antelope Pala-pala, which is exactly 

 the same designation as that of the Makalakas of 

 Southern Rhodesia. 



The present habitat of this species may be said 

 to range from the Eastern Transvaal and Southern 

 Rhodesia (Matabeleland and Mashonaland), through 

 Central and East Africa, as far north as German East 

 Africa. They have been seen and occasionally shot 

 in British East Africa, where their range seems to be 

 limited to a piece of coast country near the Anglo- 

 German border. Westward their range extends 

 through Khama's country, Ngamiland, and Barotse- 

 land as far as Angola, Portuguese West Africa. 

 Undoubtedly the country where these antelopes were 



