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of a decidedly lighter colour. On one occasion I came across an 

 immense herd of fully three or four hundred of this Antelope, on 

 the left bank opposite the junction of the Bahr-el-Jebel with the 

 White Nile. They allowed me to approach within 400 yards ; and 

 a splendid sight it was to see them galloping along when startled 

 and changing direction like so much cavalry, the leading buck on 

 either flank going more slowly and the wings wheeling round, the 

 whole herd galloping off in the fresh direction when squared. 



The "Tiang," when wounded, is sometimes dangerous to 

 approach. I know of one instance in which a buck charged so 

 viciously, that it was only stopped by being clubbed across the 

 head with a rifle, the sportsman breaking his weapon in doing this. 

 In March and April I saw several young ones, but apparently the 

 mothers and young kept apart from the males in small herds. 

 When not vdth their young, the animals seem to move about either 

 alone or in small parties, and are comparatively easily stalked, even 

 in the open. Sometimes single bucks attached themselves to a herd 

 of Water-buck, and on one occasion I observed a buck of this 

 species attempt to have connection with several females of the 

 herd, although the male Water-buck resented it. The Tiang at 

 times takes an extraordinary amount of killing, and I have seen a 

 buck carry off eight -303 bullets in him, and only finally brought to 

 grass after a long hunt, and when he had apparently but one sound 

 leg left to travel with. The flesh of the Tiang is excellent. 



2. OuEEBiA MONTANA. (The Abyssiniau Oribi.) ^ 



These animals were found in considerable numbers close to 

 the Camp, and in fact afforded one of our main supplies of 

 meat for our men. They were not at all shy, and generally moved 

 about in pairs, or in pairs with a single fawn. When wounded 

 they will lie extraordinarily close at times in the long grass, so 

 close, indeed, that I found it much simpler to approach a wounded 

 buck with a double twelve-bore and No. 4 shot ; otherwise it was 

 not an easy thing to kill him, as he bounded away through the reeds. 

 I have never seen Oribi actually drinking at the river, but have 

 little doubt that they do so, having noticed numbers of tracks 

 along the bank. When startled and galloping through high grass 

 the Oribi at times bounds much after the manner of a Black Buck. 

 The natives apparently kill numbers by trapping. A small fence 

 of split reeds is made, enclosing a strip of river-bank on which 

 the grass is exceptionally good grazing, and to which the Oribi 

 come to feed at night-time. Small gates are left in the fencing, 

 and in these openings the traps are laid. The trap used is made by 

 lashing a stick to one upright of the opening, bending over the 

 fore end and pegging down an attached noose to the ground m 

 the middle of the opening. Beneath, where the noose is pegged 

 out, a small pit covered by pieces of bark, has been prepared 

 beforehand. By a trigger-like arrangement, the Oribi, in thrusting 



1 Scl. & Thorn. Bk. of Ant. ii. p. 25. 



