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tliatlake. (See The Great and Small Game of Africa, 

 by Mr. Rowland AVarcl, p. 477.) 



Geeenuk. — Lithocranius ivalleri. 



Remarkable in ajD^Dearance — with its abnormally 

 long, girafte-like neck — the gerenuk is equally remark- 

 able in distribution. Its head-quarters are in Somaliland, 

 thence spreading southw\irds through (British) Jubaland 

 to the Tana River ; but there it stops. Broadly speak- 

 ing, no gerenuk are found throughout the central zone 

 of British East Africa (that is, the line of the Uganda 

 railway). But to the southward, leaving a blank belt 

 of 100 miles or more in breadth, these antelopes turn 

 up again on the Seringeti Plains, south of Voi, and 

 thence westw^ird, skirting the base of Kilimanjaro, and 

 beyond into German territory. 



Since writing the above, my friend and Spanish 

 shooting-partner, the Marcjuis de la Scala, who with Mr. 

 R. de la Huerta and the Duke of Peuaranda, has just re- 

 turned from a most successful trip in British East iVfrica, 

 writes me : " We only came across this species once, up 

 north near the junction of the Guaso Nyro and Guaso 

 Narok. I was lucky in bagging the only individual we 

 saw, and it happened to be a male. We heard of several 

 being got near the German boundary ; and on our 

 journey back towards the coast, we saw one from the 

 railway carriage window near Sultan Hamud." 



Hunter's Antelope. — Damaliscus hunteri. 



On the Tana River only and northwards therefrom. 



Topi. — Da maliscus jimela. 



This species we had included in our programme ; but 

 were prevented from reaching its habitat on the Man 

 Highlands owing to the outbreak of the Nandi rebellion. 

 The topi is not uncommon there, but more plentiful on 

 the Tana River and in Jubaland. This antelope, like 

 its South-African relative, the tsesseby, is beautifully 



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