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full in view, and until well used to the bush and to the antelope, it may 

 easily happen that the hunter will be well within sight and shot and not see 

 the game. My first sight of a sing-sing bull failed to give me a shot, for 1 

 could not see the beast, in spite of my shikari's reiterated whisper, " Shoot, 

 sah ! kussa duchi " (near the stone). It was only when the antelope, a 

 fine bull, started off at a gallop and disappeared almost instantaneously 

 behind a boulder, that I saw he had been standing within 80 yards, by 

 a big gray rock, against which he was indistinguishable to the eye of a 

 novice. The flesh of the sing-sing is very coarse and unpalatable, being 

 almost uneatable by the European, but the natives will eat it without 

 reluctance. A. J. Arnold. 



Crawshay's Sing-Sing (Coins defassu c rail's ha yi) 



C/lUZWl OF THE AWEMBAS AND THE PEOPLE OF ItAWA AND K.ABWIRI, 



Lake Mweru District, British Central Africa 



This antelope, a very near relative of the true waterbuck, is slightly 

 smaller in size, and differs a good deal in colour, the prevailing tone ot the 

 coat being a bluish-gray, much darker upon the upper parts and neck. 

 The rump is white, the tail, front of face, and lower portions of the legs 

 very dark grayish-brown. The horns measure about 24 inches over the 

 curve. This sing-sing has the same rough shaggy coat and " powerful 

 ovine scent " as the true waterbuck, and indeed the rest of this group. It 

 bears a strong resemblance to Penrice's sing-sing from Benguela. Mr. 

 Alfred Sharpe writes of it : — 



" There is another variety of waterbuck found in British Central Africa, 

 in the Mweru districts. The Cobus crawsliayi was first seen by Mr. 

 Richard Crawshay in 1892, and skins were sent to England during that 

 year by him and by myself. This variety is of a generally darker gray 

 than Cohus ellipsiprymnus, and when seen in thickly wooded country 



