-* Gazelles and Dwarf Antelopes 



haunts and habits. It loves to find a refuge in thick 

 covert, and thus has a better chance than the animals 

 which live out on the steppes. 



Unfortunately that excellent work Great and Small 

 Game of Africa informs us that the once common reed- 

 buck is becoming very rare in Natal, Zululand, Bechuana- 

 land, the Transvaal, and Swaziland. 



Among the mountains of the Xyika lives a wonderful 



A HERD OF FEMALE GRANT'S GAZELLES 



miniature antelope, the klipspringer, of which I discovered 

 a new species {Oreotragits schillings}.} This graceful 

 creature, covered with thick grey-greenish hair, and 

 adorned with a white beard, springs from crag to crag 

 like a feather ball, uttering a shrill cry of warning. 



So far as I could ascertain, the klipspringer is called 

 " n'gossoiru " by the Masai. I found this beautiful 



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