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ANTELOPES 



it " must apparently be a very local species, which is probably the 

 reason why it has not been obtained by other travellers. I met with 

 it at the far north-eastern corner of Lake Rudolf, in one locality only, 

 and the natives there did not seem to know of it elsewhere. I saw a 

 small herd of cows and young with one big bull, and one or two odd 

 bulls apart. It may or may not have been the same troop which was 

 met with on different occasions. I came across them accidentally 

 when hunting elephants, and recognised them as something new to 

 me. They frequented a tract of fairly open bush -country, some little 



FIG. 33. Neumann's Hartebeest, head of female and skull and horns of male. 



distance back from the lake -shore, where the ground rises gently in 

 dry gravelly ridges covered with more or less scattered scrubby bush. 

 Owing to my being laid up during most of the time that I was in the 

 neighbourhood of the locality where I saw this antelope, and the area 

 being so circumscribed and not easily accessible to me while weak, I 

 was unable to study the species as much as I should have liked, and I 

 considered myself lucky to obtain the specimens I brought home, for 

 those I saw were by no means easy to get near. 



" This is the only true hartebeest found in the region where I met 

 with it. With the exception of the topi, which belongs to a different 

 genus, there is no other hartebeest within several hundred miles. The 



