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River near its junction with that stream. Between the Sabi and the 

 Zambesi it has not yet been met with, though it has been recently 

 discovered in Nyasaland to the north of the Zambesi. 



Concerning its distribution in this part of the country Mr. A. Sharpe 

 writes : " This antelope is found in a piece of thick scrubby country 

 bordering the Moanza, which enters the Shire on the right bank near the 

 Murchison cataracts. I have never heard of it in any other part of 

 Nyasaland." 



Whilst on the subject of the distribution of the inyala in Nyasaland, 

 I think it will not be out of place to quote a few passages from an article 

 contributed by myself to the Field on the subject of this antelope in 1897, 

 which run as follows : — 



" Although the fact of the existence of the inyala in Nyasaland was 

 only established as lately as 1891, I think that a specimen of this antelope 

 was undoubtedly shot near Cape Maclear, on the shores of Lake Nyasa 

 itself (where it is not now known to exist), by the late Captain Faulkner 

 in 1866. In his narrative of a journey to Lake Nyasa in connection with 

 the Livingstone search expedition, sent out from England under the 

 command of Lieutenant Young in that year, Captain Faulkner has written 

 in a little-known work entitled Elephant Haunts : — 



" ' I had walked a long way without seeing anything, and as it was getting 

 late, was about returning, when I saw a beautiful antelope feeding near a 

 narrow strip of swamp.' This antelope he killed, and then described in 

 the following words : ' He was in splendid condition, and a distinctly 

 different animal from any I had hitherto seen ; height at shoulder 3 feet 

 4 inches ; spiral horns 21 inches long, slightly curved forward ; skin of a 

 grayish colour, and covered with white spots ; belly white.' " Commenting 

 upon this description of Captain Faulkner's of an antelope entirely new 

 to him, I wrote : "Now either this antelope shot in 1866 on the shores 

 of Lake Nyasa was an inyala, or it belonged to a species still unknown to 



