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APPENDIX ' A.' 



Statistics of Game Killed under Licence, 1908 4. 



Notes. 'Tiang' includes 4 or 5 of the 'Westein species Damaliscus 

 horriffum. 



' Other gazelle ' include Qazella Dorcas, O. Isabella, O. Ptilonnra 

 and (!. lin.fifrons. 



Of the total of 1,798, head-officers, officials, and residents killed 1,;S84, 

 and visitors 414. 



(Signed) A. L. BuTLBB, 



Director, Game Preservation Dept. 



' 30. Preservation of Game. 



' I explained in my last annual Report (p. 92) that a new Game 

 Ordinance for the Soudan had been issued in December 1902. 

 This Ordinance provided for the formation 



' 1, Of a sanctuary, in which no one would be allowed to shoot, 

 save officials actually stationed within its limits ; 



' 2. Of a second, and less absolute, sanctuary, in which only 

 Soudan officials would be allowed to shoot. Outside those two 

 sanctuaries all sportsmen were to be allowed to shoot. 



' The inviolability of the first sanctuary appears to have been 

 well preserved. Only two cases of infringement occurred. A 

 mining party killed one kudu and five oribi before the information 

 that the area was totally protected had reached them. During 

 Colonel Gorringe's expedition against Ibrahim Wad Mahmoud, it 

 was unavoidable that permission should be given to his party to 

 shoot in order to obtain food. They killed two kudu, five roan 

 antelopes, and a hartebeeste. On the other hand, I regret to 

 report that considerable quantities of game were killed within the 

 sanctuary by natives resident on the Abyssinian frontier. In spite 

 of every effort, it is very difficult to make them desist from this 

 practice. 



' Pears were at one time expressed that the sanctuary would 

 prove of but slight utility, as it contained little or no game. These 

 tears have proved groundless. The Governor of the Upper Nile 

 Province writes : — 



' " There is more game in the sanctuary than we at first supposed, 

 and the fears we originally expressed here, that an area had been 

 protected which was very scantily stocked with game, have 

 happily to some extent proved groundless." 



' The number of head of game killed last year was 1,798, of 

 which 414 by visitors and 1,384 by Soudan officials, as compared 

 to 1,072 in '1903, of which 175 by visitors and 997 by Soudan 

 officials.* Mr. Butler reports that " game throughout the country 



* ' Considerations of space prevent mo from giving the details, but they can 

 be furnished, on application, to any Associations or individuals who are specially 

 interested in this subject. Mr. Butler thinks that the figures for 1904 include 

 at least 98 per cent, of all the larger animals killed, and 80 per cent, of the 



