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base, and while this splendid animal stood fixedly gazing 

 in the wrong direction, I succeeded, by creeping and 

 running from tree to tree, in gaining a range of just 

 under 300 yards. Then, in happy moment, I dropped 

 him clean with a '303 bullet in the base of the neck. 

 My prize proved to be a Sing-sing waterbuck bull 



WOUNDED WATEEBUCK. 



(defassa), carrying horns of 28 j ins. What had 

 deceived me was the abnormal breadth of horn. These, 

 not being set regularly, reached the extraordinary span 

 of 30 ins. between tips — a measurement exceeding any 

 given in Rowland Ward's Records. I killed another 

 sing-sing bull a few days later, but in that animal, 

 though the horns reached 27|- ins., the span between 

 tips was under a foot. In his dark, shaggy coat, with 

 which the white collar and facial markings so strongly 

 contrast, the sino-sino- is an altoo'ether handsomer 

 animal than the common waterbuck. Both species 



