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grains in the west and centre, and T. s. selousii 

 in the south-east. It was in Angola that Serpa 

 Pinto first saw and described it, as actually able 

 to live under water and breathe through the tips 

 of its horns ! I have seen them in the* Cokue, 

 Loando, and Luxcashi Rivers, and neat Chuso 

 village on< the Coanza River, and know jit is to 

 be found in a number of papyrus mgtrsh^s in the 

 Bailundu province and near Melanje. Tfiey are 

 said to fee found in the Kasai and its tributaries, 

 in the district of Lunda, but are more numerous 

 among ilhe marshes of the Cuando, tiubango, 

 Cuchi, arid Cucuti Rivers, in the ? east and south- 

 east of Angola. 



Persistently hunted by burning the / papyrus 

 cover and spearing mem from canoes, the jfcitatunga 

 is becoming rarer irt inhabited countr^. I shot 

 a 29-inch head, and \saw an old one on a grave 

 measuring B3 inches. A type of sitattmga with 

 horns no bigger than those, of a bush buck was 

 described to me as living in the Andulo district 

 of Bailundu. At, least .-' two of these heads were 

 supposed to be in the possession of a Mr. Gordon, 

 a chemist, once resident in Angola and now in 

 South Africa. 



PENRICE'S WATER BUCK (Cobus penricei) 

 (Chisema of the Umbundu, and occasionally 

 called Moket) is widely distributed. I found its 

 spoor near the following rivers : Loando, Coanza, 

 and Coporollo. It is reported along portions of 

 the Cunene, Cubango, Cuito, and Cuando Rivers 

 and some of their tributaries, and on the eastward- 

 flowing tributaries of the Zambezi. It stands 



