With Flashlight and Rifle * 



species named the Hyccna schillings! had been definitely 

 included in the category of the animal species of East 

 Africa known to science. 



What I now state clearly proves the tremendous 

 difficulty of the investigation of an unknown fauna. You 

 would say that such a common beast of prey as the 

 hyojna would have come into constant contact with the 

 sportsman, or even the non-sportsman, especially by 

 nightly ravages, and that, above all, the natives would 

 have known it well. 



In the same way so distinguished an observer as Stuhl- 

 mann was unable, during his stay on the Semliki, to obtain 

 information of the okapi, which later became so fatuous, 

 or of certain antelopes, as, for example, Hunter's hartebeest 

 {Damaliscus hunteri} or the bongo (Boocercus euryceros], 

 which had been seen by Europeans not long before. 



Of course, after my absolute proofs and those given 

 by Professor Matschie, it was constantly stated by this or 

 that person that they had long been acquainted with the 

 animal in question. Such statements are easily made ! 



In an English work, Great and Small Game of A /nca, 

 published in 1899, the striped hyajna is said to be found 

 only in Somaliland. 



The great whale-head (Bal&niceps ;r.r), which has 

 become so celebrated, was for years after its discovery 

 in the marshes of the Nile the unattainable desire ot 

 ornithological collectors ! 



How seldom does the European spy out a fox in pass- 

 ing through woods and fields ! How proud I was in my 

 younger days in the Eifel Mountains at home over having 



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