1890.] ANTELOPES OF NYASA-LAND. 663 



"Nkozi" of theAhengaand Anyika, "KaiTgosa" of the Awanyakyusa, 

 is very generally met witli in the liills, if not too steep and rocky, and 

 in the plains ; but appears to prefer a flat or undulating country, well 

 wooded and with intervening open glades. 



In 1883 I first met with this Antelope on the plains between the 

 Kiwira and Insesi Rivers, in Makyusa's country, at the north-west of 

 the Lake; there were just three in the troop, and with the help of 

 another gentleman I was lucky enough to kill one — a nearly full- 

 grown bull, which was subsequently identified by Mr. Pulley, one of 

 our party, as Lichtenstein's Hartebeeste, and of which I now exhibit 

 the skull (Fig., p. 662). In 1885 I saw several herds of these 

 animals to the south-east of Nyasa, aud between it and Lake Shirwa, 

 and from all accounts they must be plentiful in the Yao country, to 

 the east of the Lake. 



On the West Coast, later in the same year, I came across a good 

 many on the Kanjamwana River, and between Amiiwa and Mpemba's: 

 here they usually consorted with Impalas ; but on the same plains 

 there were also to be seen in their company, from time to time. 

 Water-bucks, Reed-bucks, and occasionally Koodoos or Elands. 

 Inland from Bana to the north again, I was told there were Harte- 

 beestes, and I saw some heads of animals said to have been killed 

 there. 



In 1889-90 I repeatedly saw a few in the low red-sandstone 

 hills to the north of Chonibi, between Makwawa's and Afunan- 

 chenga's, on the Ilara River ; here they generally went in company 

 with Water-bucks or Zebra?, and once I noticed three Hartebeestes 

 herding and feeding in the midst of some thirty or forty Water-bucks, 

 all cows. Between Nkanga and Karonga's, on the coast-line, and in 

 all the intervening country between that and the Anyika Mountains, 

 Hartebeestes are commonly met with, notably at Vuwa, Mrali, and 

 Taowira. At Nkanga, during my stay tliere, a cow was killed in a 

 game pit, and of this animal 1 secured the horns and frontal bone. 

 As a rule, 1 have seen Hartebeestes in herds numbering from half a 

 dozen or even less to perhaps fifteen or twenty, but I never remem- 

 ber having come across more than that number. This Antelope 

 possesses extraordinary vitality, and in this respect is very little 

 behind the Water-buck. 



13. CoNNOCH^TES TAURINA. 



This Wildebeeste — the " Nyumbu " of the Anyanja and Ajawa, but 

 apparently unknown to the natives round the northern half of Nyasa 

 — is not met with anywhere in the immediate neighbourhood of the 

 Lake, though it is found a little to the south-east, and also, I believe, 

 to the south-west. 



I have never myself come across any of these animals, though I 

 have often noticed that tlie natives of Cape Maclear and other places 

 north and south of it make use of their tail-hairs for stringing beads 

 on their combs, and these, I fancy, must come from the country to 

 the westward. 



