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I sent a ranger up to endeavour to capture it alive, but attempts 

 were unsuccessful, owing to the mesh of our net being too lai-ge. 

 It Avas seen close enough, however, to be recognized as a female, 

 nearly pure white and about one year old. After the unsuc- 

 cessful attempts to capture her alive, she was noticed at intervals 

 for another month ; but before another attempt could be made, 

 she disappeared, probably killed by wild dogs. 



These animals, which may have been born in 1909 in the first 

 case and 1910 in the second, were found at a considerable distance 

 north and south of one another, and the incidents almost certainly 

 had no connection whatever, but both occurred within a few miles 

 of or among the foothills of the Drakensberg Mountains, on the 

 western border of the Reserve. In nearly eleven years' careful 

 observation of Reedbucks in the Reserve, these are the only 

 cases of albinism that have been bi"ought to my notice. 



Sharpens Sleenhuck (Raphiceros sharpei). 



Spiti-jnte or Pltsi-pitsi of the Thonga tribes of the North- 

 east Transvaal and neighbouring Portuguese East Africa. 

 Isigulane of the Swazis. 



Geographical Distribution. — The most northei-ly habitat of the 

 species appears to be British Nyasaland, where it was discovered, 

 and recorded by Sir A. Sharpe. Thence it extends down through 

 Mashonaland, possibly hugging the vicinity of the eastern hilly 

 country, to the North-eastern Transvaal. It is there found all 

 along the course of the Lebombo Hills (but never in the Drakens- 

 berg Mountains, sixty miles further west) as far as the Crocodile 

 River at Komati Poort. It becomes very numerous between the 

 Limpopo and Letaba Rivers, a,nd is there spread through broken 

 ground to as much as thirty miles from the Lebombo. South of 

 the Olifants it becomes progressively scarcer, and is very rare 

 indeed between the Sabi and Crocodile Rivers. It reappears, 

 however, in Swaziland (Mr. R. T. Coryndon), and is found all 

 along the border of that country and Portuguese East Africa on 

 both sides of the Lebombo. Mr. Coryndon is of the opinion that 

 it occurs also in Northern Zululand — that is to say, as far as the 

 end of the Lebombo Hills. 



Whatever be the case in Nyasaland and Mashonaland, in the 

 Transvaal and Swaziland it occurs only in one narrow strip com- 

 prising the Lebombo Hills and their immediate surroundings. 



No antelope answering to the desci-iption seems to be reported 

 from Natal or Northern Pondoland, and in the south of the latter 

 we arrive at the extreme known northern limit of the Grysbuck 

 (/?. melanotis), at Port St. John's. 



The geographical distribution of Sharpe's Steenbuck, therefore, 

 seems to be between 14° and 28° south latitude, and between 

 about 81 1° and 33|° east longitude, the line of distribution 

 following more oi- less the south-westerly trend of the coast, 

 though at some distance fi'om it. 



