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Roan antelope 







39 



Oryx leucoryx 

 Kudu 







2 

 1 



Beedbuok 







22 



Bushlbuok 







31 



Ariel 







74 



Other gazelles 

 Duiker . 







139 



8 



Oribi 







43 



Ibex 







5 



Hippopotamus 



Wart hog 







19 



15 



Wild boar 







2 



Lion 







23 



Leopard . 



Cheetah . 







7 

 2 



Giraffe . 







4 



Wild ass 







2 



Ostrich . 







4 



842 



It cannot be doubted that a certain quantity of 

 game is killed, under licence, without being reported. 

 Mr. Butler, however, thinks that the above list pro- 

 bably represents about 80 per cent, of the larger 

 animals shot by Europeans, but that, as regards 

 gazelle and ariel, it cannot be held to represent 

 more than 50 per cent., if so much. 



The European sportsman is not, however, the 

 principal enemy to game in the Sudan. The law, 

 as it stands, is legally applicable to all natives of 

 the Sudan alike. But it is quite clear, from what 

 Mr. Butler says, that it cannot be fully enforced. 

 " I have not attempted," Mr. Butler says, " to col- 

 lect any statistics relating to game killed by natives 

 owing the impossibility of obtaining anything 

 approaching to accurate information. A great deal 

 of destruction undoubtedly went on during the 



