THE WILD FAUNA OF THE EMPIRE 



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Fourth Sohbdt/le. 



Animals limited numbers of which may be hilled or captured under a, 

 Settler's Licence. 



Number of 

 AnitiKils allowed 



1- Hippopotamus .... 



2. The following Antelopes and Gazelles 

 only — 

 (i.) Grant's Gazelle 

 (ii.) Thomson's Gazelle 

 (lii.) Hartebeest (Bubalis and 



Damaliscus) 

 (iv.) Impala (JKpyceros) 

 (v.) Keedbuck (Qervicapra) . 

 (vi.) Duiker (CepJiaJophus) 

 (vii.) Klipspnnger (Oreotragus) 

 (viii.) Steinbuck (llhapiceros) . 

 (ix.) Waterbuok (Cobus) 



(x.) Wildebeest (Gnu) Gomiochceles 

 (except the white-tailed 

 species) 

 ■'• Serval 



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5 animals in all in any calendar 

 month, made up of animals 

 of a single species or of 

 several ; provided, however, 

 that not more than 10 animals 

 altogether of any one species 

 shall be killed during the 

 period for which the licence 

 is available other than Grant's 

 Gazelle, Thomson's Gazelle, 

 and Hartebeest (Bubalis and 

 Damaliscus) 



Since the above was written and handed to the printers, 

 I have heard of one or two eases of sportsmen shooting over 

 private; ground — I do not say purposely. Owing to the Survey 

 Department being at present unable to cope with the work entrusted 

 to it, many farms or stations are unsurveyed, and therefore it is 

 impossible for the owners to fence or even stake out boundaries to 

 show people where their land lies. I am a sufferer from this 

 myself ; and it is hard on the owner of land to be looked on as 

 a game destroyer when game on his land is killed by strangers. 

 Also, if any exploration or other work is carried on in the Masai- 

 land Eeserve, as is extremely probable, the Reserve and game will 

 no doubt suffer greatly unless great care is taken. 



