The Antelopes of I Last Africa 



In open declivities, sparsely grown over with acacia 

 salvadora and terminalia, as well as in the open plain, 

 we find the " kongoni " specially frequent, often in 

 company with ostriches, zebras, gnus, and Grant's gazelles 

 or other wild animals. Young specimens of these ante- 

 lopes, only a few days old. which I have come across, 

 principally in March or April, scamper off just as nimbly 





A FEMALE GERENUK GAZELLE 



as their elders. One of these week-old creatures, which 

 I was trying to tire out, was the principal cause (of course, 

 in conjunction with severe malarial fever) of a painful 

 heart-trouble, which brought my third African tour to 

 a premature end. 



To the hartebeests (as well as to many other 

 species of antelope) are peculiar both the characteristic 

 lachrymal glands and another kind of gland, of which 



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