458 Great and Small Game of Africa 



lived either alone or in pairs, sometimes accompanied by a last year's fawn, 

 like the bushbuck and situtunga. At night they feed out into open spaces 

 in the bush, but are never found in such places between daylight and dark, 

 as they have been so much persecuted by the natives that they have grown 

 very wary and cunning. In the jungles between the Usutu and Pongolo 

 Rivers in Amatongaland, where I hunted for inyalas in 1896, there 

 appeared to be no other game of any kind, with the exception of a very 

 few bushbucks and a few wild pigs (bush-pigs). As the country seemed 

 admirably suited for bushbucks, I do not know how to account for their 

 scarcity in this district, except on the supposition that they are driven out 

 of the jungles frequented by the inyalas by these more powerful, though 

 nearly allied animals. Inyala rams are said by the natives to become very 

 savage when wounded, and sometimes to charge fiercely. 



The type specimens of the inyala originally obtained by Mr. Angas 

 are described as follows : — 



" Adult male 7 feet 6 inches in total length, and 3 feet 4 inches high 

 at the shoulder. Though elegant in form, and with much of the grace of 

 the solitary koodoo, the robust and shaggy aspect of the male bears con- 

 siderable resemblance to that of the goat. Legs clean, hoofs pointed 

 and black, with two oval cream-coloured spots in front of each fetlock 

 immediately above the hoof. Horns of the specimen in question 1 foot 

 10 inches long, twisted and sublyrate, very similar to those of the bushbuck, 

 but rather more spiral ; very sharp polished extremities of a pale straw- 

 colour ; rest of horns brownish-black, deeply ridged from the forehead to 

 about half the length of the horn. Prevailing colour grayish-black, tinged 

 with purplish-brown and ochre ; on the neck, flanks, and cheeks marked 

 with several white stripes like the koodoo. Forehead brilliant sienna- 

 brown, almost approaching to orange ; mane black down the neck, and 

 white from the withers to the insertion of the tail ; ears 8 inches long, oval, 

 rufous, tipped with black, and fringed inside with white hairs. A pale 



