256 Great and Small Game of Africa 



been among the animals collected by Captain Speke during his journey to 

 the Nile sources. It was first identified by Baron von Diiben, by whom 

 it was scientifically named, so far back as 1846. jt a. Bryden. 



Livingstone's Suni (Nesotragus livingstonianus typicus) 



Lumswi of the Shupanga (Southern Lower Zambesi) Natives ; 

 Inhlengana of the Amatonga 



This beautiful little antelope is of a light red-fawn colour, darker on 

 the crown of the head, nape of the neck, and back, and paling towards the 

 pure white of the under parts, the insides of the limbs, the chin, throat, 

 and chest. The muzzle is naked, and the sub-orbital gland opens in the 

 form of a slit, 1 J inch long. On the frontal, below and between the 

 horns, the hair is brush-like, though not growing to an actual tuft, as in 

 the duiker. The ears are large and extremely delicate. The horns of the 

 male (the female is hornless), which rise at an angle from the plane of the 

 frontals and are straight, but recurving slightly forward near the tips, are 

 deeply annulated for nearly two-thirds of their length from the base ; 

 their average length is 3-i inches. The longest I have secured measured 

 44 inches. The following are the dimensions of adult male and female : — 



Extreme length over all, tip of nose t 



end 



of tail 



27J 



inches 



25 J inches 



Length of tail 







3h 





3 



Perpendicular shoulder height 







Hi 





i3i » 



,, height at the croup 







Hi 





Hi ., 



Girth of neck 







6i 





6 



,, behind the shoulder 







Hi- 





i3l „ 



The range of Livingstone's antelope is from St. Lucia Bay in Zulu- 

 land throughout the entire forested portions of the east coast to the mouth 

 of the Liuli River, province of Mozambique ; ' north of the Zambesi it is 

 rare to find a pair of horns over 3 inches in length. They are true forest 



