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to the east of the Loando and .along some of its 

 tributaries. This antelope is also reported by 

 Serpa Pinto, CapelU), and lyens to be present 

 on the Cuando, Cuito, and Cubango Rivers, and 

 some of their tributaries ; so that ite distribution 

 is very widespread in Angola* The animals when 

 seen at a distance of some 300 yards Appeared to 

 be about the size of the Black Lechwe (Cobus 

 lechwe smithimani), but the horns sefemed to be 

 distinctly smaller (the specimen I obtained, one 

 of the biggest heads observed, measured only 20 

 inches, a length below the average of tlie ordinary 

 black lechwei The colour of the coa,t was con- 

 siderably lighter than that of any of the black 

 lechwe I have shot in north - eastern Rhodesia. 

 These two differences of colour and size of horns, 

 together with slight differences in the facial bones, 

 tempt me to believe that the Angolan lechwe is a 

 new variety closely allied to the black lechwe of 

 north-eastern Rhodesia,.; and the distance (several 

 hundred miles) which /separates these two groups 

 of lechwe is, I think, an additional reason support- 

 ing this claim. Tlae track and dung resemble 

 those of other varieties of lechwe. 



The REED BUCK (C&rvicapra arundincum) 

 (Onusi of the Umbundu, Sogo of the Coanza 

 people). As far as I am aware theie is only one 

 variety of this animal, which is one of the most 

 widely distributed of all the antelopes in Angola, 

 being found in all but the most forested and desert 

 country. The heads I shot or saw were not very 

 big, the largest horns measuring just over 13 inches 

 in length. Standing some 3 feet high at the 



