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amends are made by the graceful beauty of the antelope 

 and the magificence of its skin. Its horns almost exactly 

 resemble those of a koodoo of eighteen months or two years 

 old, though, if anything, they have a broader spread. 



The range of this beautiful animal is very limited, 

 and even yet has not been quite accurately ascer- 

 tained. Ano-as first met with it on the northern 



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shores of St. Lucia Bay, in latitude 28 degrees 

 south, which seems to be its extreme southern range. 

 North of St. Lucia Bay it is, or was, plentiful in 

 the neighbourhood of all the rivers which flow 

 through the wooded plains that lie between the 

 Lebombo Hills and the sea as far north as Delagoa 

 Bay, being particularly numerous in the thickets 

 which border the Pongolo, Usutu, and Tembe 

 rivers. North of Delagoa Bay its distribution is 

 very imperfectly known ; but, as it has been shot on 

 the lower course of the Oliphants river, it doubtless 

 exists along the Limpopo between the point where 

 the former river joins it and the sea. To the north 

 of the Limpopo it is probably found along the 

 coast-line wherever conditions suitable to its habits 

 exist, namely, dense jungle in the immediate neigh- 

 bourhood of swamps and rivers, as far north as the 

 great Sabi river. At any rate, several Kafirs whom 

 I have questioned in the De Beers compound at 

 Kimberley, and who were natives of the coast 

 country near Inyambani, were evidently well ac- 

 quainted with it, describing it accurately and giving 

 it the Zulu name of inyala. 



North of the Sabi, and between that river and 

 the Zambesi, the inyala has, I believe, never been 

 met with. Personally, I have never come across 

 any trace of it, nor obtained any information con- 

 cerning it during my travels on the lower course of 

 either the Zambesi, Pungwe, or Buzi rivers, the 

 latter being the first important stream met with 



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