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Kissigao, and on the banks of the Tzavo, down which it ranges from the 

 head-waters to the Sahaki, and then north up the Athi River." ' 



At one of our camps in the Teita district a native was smoking the 

 usual African pipe, but in this instance it was made from a koodoo's horn, 

 and this attracted attention at once from the rarity of the animal, which 

 must have been killed in the neighbourhood. 



Count Teleki shot two greater koodoos near what is called on the map 

 which accompanies his book [Discovery by Count Teleki of Lakes Rudolf ami 

 Stephanie) Lake Hannington, a few miles to the south of Lake Baringo. 

 Mr. A. H. Neumann found a skull at one of his camps under the Jambeni 

 range, at the head of the Mackenzie River, which runs into the Tana ; 

 others were seen by him, and also a good deal of their spoor on the west 

 side of Mount Nyiro, at the south end of Lake Rudolf. Dr. Donaldson 

 Smith saw a single koodoo at a place called El Madu in about 41 E. Long, 

 and 4° N. Lat. 



Schweinfurth (Heart of Africa) never mentions the koodoo in any of 

 his wanderings among the western tributaries of the Nile, and it is doubtful 

 if it occurs anywhere to the west of the main river. It is, or was at 

 least, very abundant in Abyssinia, on the banks of the Settik, as late 

 as 1878.- T. E. Buckley. 



In Somaliland 



Somali Name, Goi/ir 



This is the largest of Somali antelopes, and no prettier sight can be seen 

 than an old bull standing out against the sky-line on the top of the hills. 

 I never saw the koodoo away from the Golis range, although I have seen 



1 Badminton Library, Big Game Shooting, vol. i. p. 304. 



- It is found also in Angola, Portuguese West Africa ; Mr. G. W. Penrice having in recent years 

 shot many specimens. — En. 



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