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fact that the latter stands a Uttle higher on his legs. 

 It is by no means easy in the forest to identify the 

 Duiker, in the momentary glimpse which is often 

 all that one is afforded, from the slightly larger 

 Oribi {Oribia scoparia), which is also not un- 

 common, has similar peculiarities, and inhabits the 

 same class of country. These charmingly pretty 

 antelopes, with the Klipspringer {Oreatragus sal- 

 tatur), constitute, I believe, the only members of 

 the Bovidas found in Zambezia.* 



I have purposely left the Carnivora until last, 

 as a sort of feeble protest against the vast de- 

 struction they work among those other useful, 

 beautiful, and, to my mind, more interesting 

 families we have just been considering. First and 

 foremost comes the Lion. In all the course of the 

 lower Zambezi lions are found. In some places 

 they are numerous — too numerous ; in others they 

 occur periodically ; but their grunting and, less 

 frequently, roaring are sounds which are among 

 the traveller's nightly experiences in certain por- 

 tions of the country. Though I understand both 

 the black-maned and the yeUow-maned animals 

 belong to the same species, the latter is the most 

 commonly reported. South of the Zambezi and 

 near the Mozambique Company's boundary on the 

 Mupa River, lions are particularly abundant, and 

 many man-eaters occur. To such an extent, in- 

 deed, do they carry on their depredations that it is 

 no uncommon experience to pass large, well-built 

 villages which have been completely abandoned 



* Livingstone's antelope is reported from the Shupanga Forest, but 

 I have never seen cue. 



