ANTELOPES OF EAST AFRICA 



for the protection of this game. The government 

 proved that it meant business when it fined heavily the 

 first offender, a high EngHsh official. It is to be hoped 

 that the German government will follow the good ex- 

 ample set by its EngHsh neighbor when the projected 

 railroad in German East Africa is built. 



Besides the koodoo, the eland, and the gnu, we find in 

 suitable localities in German East Africa the roan and 

 the sable antelope, antelopes of large size and of grace- 

 ful and slender form, both called "palla halla" by the 

 Waswahili. O. Neumann has proved the existence of 

 a third species of the genus Hippotragus in South 

 Somaliland. 



The sable antelope {Hippotragus nigcr) does not exist 

 in the Masai high plateau proper; it is, however, fre- 

 quently met with near the coast and as far as sixty- 

 five miles inland, along the railroad line — Mombas- 

 Tanga - Pangani - Sadaani. This deep - brown - colored 

 "palla halla" is also absent in the districts near the 

 Kilimanjaro ; the pale - brown - colored roan antelope 

 {Hippotragus equinus) I first met near the Ngare- 

 Dobasch, and, later, in the Kikumbulia district. I was 

 never fortunate enough to take a good picture of these 

 beautiful and rare "horse-antelopes." 



A species of antelope which the traveller very fre- 

 quently meets with, especially in the most arid parts 

 of the East African steppe, is the beautiful oryx ante- 

 lope {Oryx callotis). The oryx is spread over Africa 



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