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His beautiful marking makes him one of the most lovely of antelopes. The 
females have no horns, and, as in the case of the larger kudu, are brown, whereas 
the males are dark slate-colour. I shot 2 bucks, one having 9 white stripes on one 
side and 10 on the other, the other having 13 on one side and 14 on the other, 
These 2 antelope measured, respectively, 3 ft. 7 in. and 3 ft. 72 in. in height at 
the shoulder. Lesser kudu seem extremely fond of aloes, a species of milk bush, 
and a creeper with thick fleshy leaves. They are frequently seen in small herds. 
The largest herd I saw consisted of 2 bucks and 5 does. The photograph which 
T exhibit is that of a lesser kudu, wounded, but alive; it gives an idea of the 
nature of the bushes among which he lives. 
The klipspringer lives solely among the hills, and is generally found among 
high boulders and rocks, His tiny little hoofs, which are very high, enable him 
to secure a footing on what look like perfectly inaccessible rocky slopes, and the 
manner in which he bounds from one boulder to another is astonishing. When 
disturbed, he utters a loud hissing sound, which is at times apt to betray his 
presence, for his brown colour blends wonderfully well with the rocks among 
which he lives. The females have no horns, those of the males being short, 
upright, and between 3 and 4 inches in length. The Somalis affect to despise the 
flesh of this antelope ; to my taste, it is quite worth eating. Klipspringers are 
seldom found alone. I always saw 2 or 3 together, and on one occasion saw 5 
ina herd. The hair is most peculiar, being stiff and about an inch long, and 
rather suggestive of a porcupine’s bristles on a small scale. 
Of the warthog I can say very little, as I did not succeed in getting a boar. 
I saw warthog on two occasions, and was at once struck by the almost total 
absence of neck, the formidable-looking tusks, and the position of the tail, which 
appears to be always carried pointed straight up in the air. ‘The colour of these 
animals seemed to me to vary with the locality in which they were. Out on a 
vast grass-covered plain, with little or no cover on it, these pigs looked quite 
yellow, thus matching the dried-up grass ; in bush-covered land, with an under- 
erowth of aloes, their colour was grey, like that of ordinary Indian pig. I shot 
a sow, whose tusks looked quite as big as those of most boars in India. Very 
little of the tusk is embedded in the gum, nearly the whole of it protruding. 
The panther of Somali Land is exactly the same as the Indian animal, except 
that the skin is somewhat paler in colour. ‘They appear to do a great deal of 
damage among the sheep and goats of the Somalis, but, I believe, very seldom 
kill ponies or donkeys. On two occasions a panther came close to my zeriba, but 
he took no notice of the donkey which was tied outside. This particular panther, 
which I afterwards shot, measured 4 ft. 1 in. from the nose to the insertion of 
the tail, which was 2 ft. 8 in. long. An Indian panther, with a body 4 ft. 1 in. 
in length, would have made short work of the donkey. I cannot help thinking 
that the Somali panther is less powerful than his Indian brother. I shot three, 
