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till dusk ; but in the early mornings, especially after a cold night, may 

 often be seen standing motionless, sunning themselves at the edge of 

 the bush. In wet weather they are on the move throughout the day, 

 often playing and leaping in a charming manner. Their range is 

 limited over a given tract of country, and old rams will be found year 

 after year in the same bush. Their flesh is excellent eating, better, I 

 think, than that of any small antelope. Young bushbuck are usually 

 born between the middle of October and the middle of December, 

 though often so late as February. 



" There is but one admissible method, from a sportsman's point of 

 view, of shooting bushbuck, viz. stalking ; for in bush-driving there is 

 an entire lack of what I consider the first great principle of sport- 

 fair play the winning of trophies by one's own unaided skill in forest- 

 craft." 



In an article in the Field newspaper for March 14, 1908, on the 

 glands of antelopes, I have suggested that the short-haired collar on 

 the neck of certain races of the bushbuck is glandular in its nature. 



THE NYALA OR I NYALA 



( Tragelaphus angasi) 



Inyala, ZULU ; Bo, NYASA 



(PLATE xiii, fig. 4) 



This handsome bushbuck, which was discovered by Mr. Douglas 

 Angas in the neighbourhood of St. Lucia Bay, near the southern 

 extremity of its range, and named by him after his father, Mr. George 

 French Angas, in the Zoological Society's Proceedings for the year 

 i 848, is a slenderly built antelope resembling the preceding species in 

 the normal form of its hoofs, but distinguished by its superior stature. 

 Bucks, for instance, stand about 42 inches at the shoulder, and weigh 

 as much as from 250 to 300 Ib. The species is further characterised 

 by the length and shagginess of the coarse hair, and by the striking 

 disparity in the colouring of the two sexes. The bucks arc dark 

 greyish brown with a small number of indistinct white vertical stripes, 

 whereas the does arc bright chestnut-red with the stripes clearly defined 

 and more numerous (13 or 14). The legs of adult males arc tan from 

 the knees and hocks downwards, except just above the hoofs ; and the 

 face has an incomplete white chevron, formed by a pair of elongated 



