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two of the chocolate-coloured variety, which were got in 

 the stony hills bordering the Lupata Gorge, on the Zambesi 

 River. In Mlanje, where they used to be very plentiful, 

 they inhabit the thickest of cover, and the natives there also 

 kill great numbers with their snares. 



In running they assume a crouching attitude, and so 

 creep through small spaces among the thick vegetation, 

 and, once they are startled, they do not stop to look back, 

 but go right away. The female does not, probably, weigh 

 much more than i2lb. Their feet are very small and grace- 

 fully formed, and they are the smallest antelopes in this 

 part of Africa. 



LIVINGSTONE'S ANTELOPE. 



When living, about a couple of years ago, for a few 

 months near Mikolongwe, in Blantyre district, a friend 

 (Mr. J. Maiden, of Midima Estate) gave me a pair of 

 horns, on frontlet of skull, of a small antelope killed by 

 one of his natives with a shotgun on the slopes of Midima 

 Hill. At the first glance I thought it belonged to a male 

 Livingstone's antelope, so I wrote Mr. R. Lydekker, F.R.S., 

 of the Natural History Museum, London, and sent him, 

 with a full description, a pencil sketch of the horns, and he 

 replied that I was correct in thinking it belonged to this 

 species. I have never seen another specimen, and it is a 

 pity Mr. Maiden was not able to keep the full skull and 

 skin ; but he happened to be away from home when his 

 boy shot it, and the horns were all he could recover. 



I think it is worth putting on record that this species 

 exists here. I know it is plentiful near Shupanga Mission 

 Station, on the south bank of the Zambesi River; but it is 

 a long way from that place to Midima Hill, in the Blantyre 

 district of Nyasaland, and I never heard of it as existing on 

 the north bank of the Zambesi. 



I have heard of the common steinbuck being shot in 

 Central Africa, but not having met with it, or seen the 

 horns or skin of a specimen shot there, I prefer not to 

 include it in this list, as its existence is doubtful. It 



