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flowing into the Indian Ocean north of the great 

 Sabi river. 



Thus, until quite lately the range of Angas's 

 bushbuck was supposed to be confined to the coast- 

 line between St. Lucia Bay and a point somewhere 

 to the south of the great Sabi river ; but amongst 

 a parcel of skins sent from Nyasaland in 1891 by 

 Mr. (now Sir Alfred) Sharpe to Dr. P. L. Sclater, 

 the well-known zoologist, was the unmistakable 

 hide of a male inyala, and subsequent research has 

 brought to light the fact that this beautiful antelope, 

 whose habitat had hitherto been supposed to be 

 confined entirely to the country immediately north 

 and south of Delagoa Bay, is also an inhabitant of 

 the jungles on the central course of the Shire river. 

 In a consular report concerning the state of Nyasa- 

 land, published some years ago, Sir H. H. Johnston, 

 amongst his most interesting notes on the fauna of 

 the country which he had so ably administered, 

 wrote : " In the west Shire and lower Shire districts 

 only is found the very handsome inyala antelope." 



Concerning the skin previously mentioned, which 

 was obtained by Mr. (now Sir Alfred) Sharpe, Dr. 

 P. L. Sclater wrote as follows : 



Mr. Sharpe brings a flat skin of what is apparently a 

 male of this antelope (the inyala), hitherto not known to 

 occur so far north. He gives the following notes on it : 

 " This antelope is found in a piece of thick, scrubby country 

 bordering the Moanza, which enters the Shire on the right 

 bank near the Murchison cataracts. I have never seen it 

 alive myself, but have heard of it frequently from the 

 natives, by whom it is called bo, the ' o ' being pronounced 

 very long. It frequents the thick scrub, and only occa- 

 sionally comes out to the edges of the grass flats. I have 

 never heard of it in any other part of Nyasaland." 



However, although the fact of the existence of 

 the inyala in Nyasaland was only established as 



