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SAVAGE SUDAN 



The correct Arabic name is Abu nebakh, or "The 

 Father of barking"; but my Selim - Baggdra shikari, 

 Baraka, has a special little term of his own for bushbuck 

 Le-kepp. On the Settite, the Hamram name is Hits. 



Measurements of two Harnessed Bushbucks. 



Horns. 



Length. 

 12! ins. 



Circ. 

 55 ins. 



Si 



Shoulder 

 height. 

 30 ins. 

 29 >, 



Weight. 

 108 Ib. 

 J05 



ORIBI BROWSING. 



(in.) ORIBI 



Every day in the game-country of Sudan one may see 

 the oribi singly or in twos and threes. Often when one 

 has no hostile intent, it delights to spend an easy hour 

 watching his ways and elegant grace of motion. Although, 

 like most antelope, the oribi habitually grazes and some- 

 times stretches up a slender neck to pluck off some tassel 

 of grass overhead, yet I have also frequently noticed them 

 browsing on the green leaves of low mimosa -bush, 

 assuming the while charming attitudes as they deftly 

 snatch some succulent cluster from amidst a maze of 

 vicious thorns. 



Often during the heat of the day one may walk almost 



