NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 



THE INYALA 



(flragelaphus angasi) 



The Harnessed Antelope; Angas's Bushbuck ; Inyala of Zulus 

 and Amatonga ; Bo of Nyasaland. 



THE Inyala or Bastard Kudu of the Dutch colonists 

 inhabits South-East Africa from the Ingwavuma 

 River in northern Zululand to Beira and the 

 vicinity of the Shire River in Nyassaland. Accord- 

 ing to the Records of Big Game for 1914, it also 

 occurs in Angola on the west coast. 



Another species, known as the Mountain Inyala 

 (Tragelaphus buxtoni), inhabits the Sahatu Moun- 

 tains of north-western Gallaland. 



The Inyala usually frequents the low-lying, dense 

 forest country, and seldom strays far from water, of 

 which it drinks frequently, as often as three times 

 in the twenty-four hours during the dry season. 



In Portuguese East Africa Inyala are found at 

 least sixty miles from water, and Mr. Cecil Barnard, 

 a big-game hunter, tells me they can exist for months 

 without drinking. 



In these thick, damp, tangled forests these antelopes 

 live in small troops of one adult male and about 

 half-a-dozen females. At other times the females 

 with their young and the immature males herd 

 together ; the adult rams wandering about singly 

 or in small groups. When the young are about to 

 be born, the does wander off alone. Herds of as 

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