Angata Nyuki had become very swampy, owing to the heavy rains, and was 
entirely deserted, save by one or two odd specimens, whereas the district 
around Lake Nakuro, in the low country, was fairly overrun by these 
Antelopes. 
“When herding together these animals are commonly found (like B. coke?) 
in company with Zebras and other Antelopes, and I have frequently come 
across and shot Topi (Damaliscus jimela) amongst them, the latter being very 
numerous in the province of Buddu in Uganda. 
“Like all Hartebeests, B. jacksoni is, as a rule, very shy and difficult to 
approach—though, on one occasion, having gone considerably to the south 
of the ordinary caravan-route across the Angata Nyuki, I not only met with 
them in great numbers, but they were so little alarmed by my appearance in 
so unfrequented a locality, that they allowed me to walk right up to them, 
and even when fired at only ran for a short distance. They do not appear to 
patronize the bush country like B. cokei, though they frequent its vicinity. 
‘“‘T remarked this specially when in Uganda, for on the only occasions 
on which I encountered B. jacksoni there it was confined to certain open 
portions of the country bordering the Nile and a flat open plain of some 
10 miles in diameter to the south of the Katonga River in the Buddu 
district, where I found it accompanied by Topi, Waterbuck, and Kob. 
“Tt also, from all accounts, frequents the open tablelands bordering 
Unyoro and the Albert Nyanza, as well as the province of Bulamweze in 
Uganda, which presents somewhat similar characteristics. 
“ In appearance B. jacksoni is larger and more strongly built than B. cokei, 
and varies in colour from a light golden brown to a dark tawny red, its coat 
being beautifully fine and glossy. It is easily distinguished by the great 
length of its head and the peculiar set of its horns, which rise almost 
perpendicularly from the frontal bones, and curve sharply backwards near the 
tips at almost a right angle. 
‘““'These Antelopes possess great tenacity of life, and I have known one to 
get clean away though struck with two 577 express bullets. On the other 
hand, if fairly hit in a vital spot they die very easily. ‘The cows calve in 
November and December, and, so far as one can judge, give birth to only one 
at atime. The calves themselves are very hardy and vigorous little animals ; 
and I have known of one, which could not have been born more than a week 
or so at the most, completely out-distance one of my men who tried to run it 
