1 78 BIG GAME SHOOTING 



in average specimens 4 or 5 inches. These most 

 graceful little* buck are extremely fleet, and a pair of 

 good greyhounds find it a tough business, indeed, 

 to run them down. The scientific name for this 

 antelope is Oribia scoparia ; the Zulus and Swazis 

 know it as Inla, while the Basutos call it Pulukudu- 

 kamani, the Swahilis Taya, and the Abyssinians 

 Miwaka. 



In other parts of Africa are found the Abyssinian, 

 Peters's (a Nyasaland species), the West African, 

 and Haggard's oribi the latter discovered about 

 Lamu, in East Africa. 



The Zanzibar and Livingstone's Antelopes (neo- 

 tragus moschatus and neotragus livings tonianus} are 

 two other diminutive buck, closely allied to the 

 oribis, found, the one on islands and the mainland 

 near Zanzibar, the other in South-East Africa, from 

 Zululand to Mozambique. They are tiny creatures, 

 the former measuring 13 inches, the other 15 inches, 

 and are usually picked up with the shot-gun. 



THE GRYSBOK AND STEENBOK 



These two small antelopes, both familiar at the 

 Cape and in other parts of South Africa, are closely 

 allied. 



The Grysbok or Grys steenbok (Rha-phiceros melan- 

 otis] is, to my mind, one of the most beautiful of all 

 the smaller antelopes ; its bright red-brown coat, 

 singularly grizzled with silvery-white hairs, rendering 

 it a striking and conspicuous object and a very 



