GENERAL NOTES I5S 



the hardness or pulpiness of the horn itself. Owing 

 to this taking place, it seems manifestly unfair that 

 measurements taken from the fresh animal should be 

 recorded against those from heads that have been 

 killed some time, and though no standard has hitherto 

 been laid down, it seems the most fair and least dis- 

 putable that no measurements should be recorded 

 except from heads that have been thoroughly dried. 

 Should a fresh head measurement be recorded, a later 

 measurement from the dried specimen should be re- 

 corded by the side of it ; hence this last would fairly 

 compete with other heads that either through the want 

 of a tape, not knowing how, or any other cause, were 

 not measured in the field. 



Recording both the fresh-killed measurement and 

 the later one would be of interest, and give the 

 sportsman the satisfaction of seeing his greatest 

 measurement recorded. 



In certain species females are sometimes shot with 

 horns that normally are not horned, one of the best 

 known of these being the common duiker {C. grimuii). 

 These should always be carefully kept and the sex 

 correctly determined and recorded, as otherwise they 

 may afterwards be thought to be young males, especi- 

 ally where, as with the duikers, the female horns are 

 smooth and imperfectly formed, almost exactly as with 

 the young male. 



A beginner shooting in an.y given district must not 

 be disappointed if his heads of a certain species 



