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been able to kill one while passing through the small district where they 

 are here found sandwiched between the respective ranges of B. cokei and 

 P. jacksoni. 



It must apparently be a very local form, and this is probably the reason 

 why it has not been obtained by other travellers. I met with it at the 

 far north-eastern corner of Lake Rudolph, in one locality only, and the 

 natives there did not seem to know of it anywhere else. I saw a small 

 herd of cows and young with one big bull, and one or two odd bulls 

 apart. It may or may not have been the same troop which was met with 

 on different occasions. I came across them accidentally when hunting 

 elephants, and recognised them as something new to me. They frequented 

 a tract of fairly open bush country, some little distance back from the lake 

 shore, where the ground rises gently in dry gravelly ridges covered with 

 more or less scattered, scrubby bush. 



Owing to my being laid up during most of the time that I was in the 

 neighbourhood of the only locality where I saw this antelope, and the area 

 being so circumscribed and not easily accessible to me while in a weak 

 state, I was unable to study it as much as I should have liked to do. And, 

 in fact, I considered myself very lucky to be able to obtain the specimens 

 I brought home, for those I saw were by no means very easy to get near. 



My impression was that I had impinged upon the very extreme corner 

 of its range, and that it probably extended from there in an easterly and 

 north-easterly direction. But the fact that not one of the two or three 

 other travellers' who have visited that remote district appears to have met 

 with it seems to point to its being extremely uncommon, and the evidence 

 above cited as to its remarkably circumscribed occurrence in the only other 

 certified area whence it has been recorded also shows that its distribution 

 is very capricious and interrupted by wide intervals. 



1 Dr. Donaldson Smith, however, mentions seeing Coke's hartebeest near Lake Rudolph. As 



