170 BIG GAME SHOOTING 



Livingstone seems to have been practically the 

 discoverer of this singular antelope. In company with 

 Oswell and Murray, he came across it on his first 

 great journey of discovery that to Lake Ngami in 

 1 849. The animal is known to the Lake Bechuanas 

 as the nakong, and by that name the animal was first 

 known and identified. After Livingstone first re- 

 ported the existence of the nakong, Captain Speke 

 discovered a situtunga, varying slightly from the 

 Ngamiland form, in the neighbourhood of Lake 

 Victoria Nyanza. The chief distinction between 

 these forms seems to be that the colour of the 

 female of the southern race is a dark-greyish, sepia- 

 brown, exactly like that of the male, the young being 

 a dark bluish-black, while in the Nyanza race the 

 ewes and young are both bright rufous. By some 

 naturalists the two races have been separated, the 

 southern form being designated Tragelaphus selousi 

 (Selous' bushbuck), the Nyanza race, Tragelaphus 

 spekei (Speke's bushbuck). The coat of this antelope 

 is, it should be stated, long and somewhat silky. 

 The males of this species have no stripes or spots 

 on the body, but the young are banded and spotted 

 just as is the typical bushbuck. The face of the 

 rams is marked with a whitish spot on either side 

 and another V-shaped mark below the eyes. The 

 horns are very handsome, having two well-defined 

 twists, and, among all the bushbucks, approach 

 most closely to those of the koodoo. So much is 

 this the case that the Trek-Boers, as they passed 

 through the Ngami and Okavango regions, four-and- 



