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the drops of dew on the grass and bushes on which they feed are quite 

 sufficient for their requirements. 



They are found singly or in small lots of two or three. Their note of 

 alarm is a shrill screaming whistle. Sometimes they also emit a curious 

 little grunting noise. The evenings and mornings are the best times to 

 look for them, as they are then feeding, and afford capital sport with a 

 rook rifle. During the rest of the day they lie very close and take a lot of 

 moving, but with the aid of half a dozen men as beaters, they are easily 

 killed with a shot-gun and No. 4 shot as they dart about from bush 

 to bush like a rabbit. 



Madoqua kirki. — This is the common pan of the coast region. It is 

 very plentiful on the Island of Manda and on the mainland in the Witu 

 province, at Merereni, and for a considerable distance up the Tana River, 

 but how far I am unable to say. Inland from Mombasa it extends through 

 the Daruma and Teita country and up north to Kibwezi, where it runs 

 into M. spec, incog., from which, however, it is readily distinguished by its 

 uniform colour. 



Madoqua cavendishi. — This is the largest of all the paas. So far as my 

 own experience goes, it is found from the Kedony Valley to Lake Baringo, 

 where it was obtained by Mr. H. S. H. Cavendish in 1897. In the 

 Kedony Valley it is plentiful, also at Naivasha, but perhaps nowhere more 

 so than in the bush round Lake Elmeteita. 



Measurements and weight of male and female are as follows : — 



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Total length . 2 feet 5 inches 2 feet 4} inches 



Height at shoulder . 1 foot 3 ,, 1 foot 4] ,, 



Tail ... If „ 2j „ 



Weight . io! lbs. 13^ lbs. 



Madoqua spec, incog. — I first met with this species at Mto Simba, 

 about 1 5 miles north of Mikinduni, in the thick bush at the foot of the 



