The Bongo and Inyala 455 



This is quite the biggest of the harnessed antelopes, standing as much as 

 4 feet in height. The rams are bright chestnut in colour, beautifully 

 marked with five white stripes running transversely, and a white crescent 

 upon the breast. Unlike the inyala, this antelope is short and smooth of coat 

 and has no neck-fringe. The face is marked with a pair of white spots 

 beneath the eyes. The horns are very handsome ; strong, stout, with a 

 fine twist, and becoming yellowish — manifestly from rubbing and usage — 

 towards the points. The finest recorded pair, now in the possession of 

 Sir Edmund Loder, measure 32! inches over the curve ; 27} in a straight 

 line. The well-known explorer, Du Chaillu, was the first to obtain 

 specimens of this antelope, from the Gaboon country. 



H. A. Bryden. 



The Inyala or Nyala (Tragelaphus angasi) 



Inyala of Zulus 



The range of this handsome species is very limited, and, so far as our 

 present knowledge goes, entirely confined to a narrow strip of country on 

 the south-east coast of Africa and a small district on the River Shire, in 

 British Central Africa. The inyala was first described from the skins of 

 specimens freshly killed by some Boer hunters by Mr. Douglas Angas, by 

 whom it was named after his father, Tragelaphus angasi, or Angas's bush- 

 buck, though it is more generally known by its native Zulu name of 

 inyala. Mr. Angas first met with this beautiful antelope on the northern 

 shores of St. Lucia Bay, in latitude 28 degrees south, which seems to have 

 been the extreme southern limit of its range. From this point northwards 

 it appears to have once existed in all the low-lying coast country, along 

 the banks of all the rivers flowing into the Indian Ocean, as far as the Sabi, 

 and, following the Limpopo, penetrated a good distance inland, as I know 

 of a male and female inyala having been shot on the Lower Oliphants 



