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suddenly, thus offering the chance of a shot. If put up in the daytime 

 they make off very quickly, and are a most difficult mark for a bullet, as 

 they dodge from side to side through the scrub. Their flesh is dry, but 

 tender, and very fair eating. Being such small, delicate creatures, a rook 

 rifle is the very best weapon with which to shoot them. I have always 

 found the .320 rook rifle, 15/100 charge, quite sufficient to kill them clean. 



F. Vaughan Kirby. 



Neumann's Steinbuck [Rlmp/iiceros campestris? neumanni) 



In East Africa 



Swahili Name, Ishah 



General colouring sandy-chestnut, rather darker on the forehead, a dark 

 brown line running up for an inch and a half from the nose. The tail is 

 short and white beneath. The ears, lower jaw, and upper part of the neck, 

 and a thin line round the eyes are whitish. 



The horns are thin, smooth, and run to a very sharp point, and are 

 generally the same distance apart at the tip as at the base, 3 to 5 inches 

 being the usual length. The female is without horns. 



In size this is the smallest antelope I have met with, with the exception 

 of the dik-diks and Zanzibar antelope. 



We found it common in the long grass on the plains round Kilimanjaro, 

 and in consequence of its being rarely found anywhere except in the long 

 grass, named it the grass antelope, and considered it a prize for the pot, as 

 the flesh was more tender and juicy than that of any other antelope. We 

 did not meet with it up the Tana River. The usual shot we had at them 

 was a running one with a .450 express rifle. In the heat of the day they 

 lie up in the grass and make a pretty shot as they run away, after jumping 

 up in the open. 



