The Roan Antelope 407 



northern and eastern portions of the Transvaal, as well as certain districts 

 in Swaziland and Amatongaland, in all of which latter territories, however, 

 it has now become very scarce. The roan antelope ranges farther west- 

 wards than the sable, in the country midway between the Limpopo and 

 the Zambesi, as I have seen them on the road between Sode Gara and the 

 Mababi Plain and also between the latter place and Goh-hah Hill. 1 I 

 found them, too, not uncommon along both banks of the Chobi River. 

 In the flat coast country between the mouth of the Buzi River and the 



Fin. 38. — Roan Antelope [Hippotragus equinus). Photographed at the Cologne Zoologic 

 Gardens by the Duchess of Bedford. 



Zambesi, the roan antelope is, to the best of my belief, unknown, and it is 

 also absent from all the low-lying country on both sides of the Zambesi 

 as far as the Victoria Falls. In fact I cannot remember to have met with 

 this species in any part of South-East Africa where the altitude of the 

 country was much less than 3000 feet above sea level. One must also 

 eliminate from its range all mountainous districts — at least I have never 



1 They are also occasionally found about the salt-pans on the lower course of the Botletli River, 



