With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



one, which was absolutely normal in colour. The slain 

 antelope was no true albino, but had normal-coloured eyes. 

 A long- time ago, according to report, a native hunter 

 succeeded in killing a similar white antelope, which was 

 brought to Europe. 



A group set up for me by Robert Banzer at Oehringen 

 (Wiirtemberg) shows this rare animal surprised by a 

 black serval cat which 1 caught, and two other servals, 

 and makes a most pleasing " contrast group" of my African 

 spoils. 



Of the number of species of bushbuck in Western 

 Africa which are peculiarly well adapted for life in the 

 marshes by reason of their fine, large, extraordinarily 

 elongated hoofs, the handsome species known as Tragel- 

 aphus masaicus, called by the Waswahili, " mbawara," 

 in Kumasi, " sarga," and by the Wakamba-men, 

 " nsoia," is the only one forthcoming in Northern East 

 Africa. This type, although confined to watery places, 

 as is evident from the formation ot the hoofs, is by no 

 means a marsh-animal, but lives also in high-lying moun- 

 tain-forests, and was limited, in its origin, to very well- 

 defined covert-giving localities. 



I found the bushbuck not only near the coast in jungly 

 places, but also by rivers and on the mountains of the 

 Masai country at two thousand feet high. This antelope, 

 which utters a peculiar alarm-note, audible afar, often lets 

 the hunter come quite close in the daytime, before it takes 

 to flight, and goes in the early mornings and evenings 

 to the clearings for food. Under every condition of its 

 life it prefers a very close, upstanding bush as a resort. 



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