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though in reality closing in upon them in a semicircle ; but 
directly he stops to take a shot they will shake their heads in 
the most defiant way, and, with a few snorts and flicks of their 
mule-like tails, kick up their heels and caper off jauntily. As 
they will, as a rule, pull up a short way off, the sportsman will 
have the annoyance of again adopting the same tactics, with 
probably like results, until he might almost believe that the 
wildebeest is enjoying itself at his expense. He should, how- 
ever, avoid risking a long shot (the wildebeest is an extremely 
tough brute, and will go for miles when wounded in such a 
way as would soon bring other game to a standstill), since after 
two or three fruitless attempts if no shot is fired its suspicions 
will become allayed, and it will probably stand sufficiently long 
to give him a good chance. 
COKE’S HARTEBEEST 
Coke’s Hartebeest (Swahili, ‘Kongoni’)is by far the common- 
est antelope in East Africa, and is found almost everywhere in 
fairly open country, excepting in the Galla country and north 
of Lake Baringo. It may be met with from April to August 
as near the coast as Maji Chumvi, three marches from Mom- 
basa, and ranges throughout the year as far north as Doreta, a 
little to the south of Njemps, where Jackson’s hartebeest takes 
its place. Mr. Gedge obtained a hybrid between the two 
species somewhere near Doreta, on his way down from Uganda 
in 1892. 
LICHTENSTEIN’S HARTEBEEST 
Lichtenstein’s Hartebeest, also known to the Swahilis as 
‘ Kongoni,’ though they do not confound the two species, I in- 
clude as a British East African antelope on the authority of 
General Lloyd Mathews, who told me that he had shot some 
of these beasts (one skull of which he showed me) on his way 
down from Kilimanjaro to Pangani, but whether actually in 
British territory I am unable to say. It is a common beast 
south of the Pangani river, and in the beautiful undulating 
