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I was told there were Hartebeests, and I saw some heads of animals said to 
have been killed there. 
“‘In 1889-90 I repeatedly saw a few in the low red-sandstone hills to the 
north of Chombi, between Makwawa’s and Afunanchenga’s, on the Hara 
River; here they generally went in company with Water-bucks or Zebras, 
and once I noticed three Hartebeests herding and feeding in the midst of 
some thirty or forty Water-bucks, all cows. Between Nkanga and Karonga’s, 
on the coast-line, and in all the intervening country between that and the 
Anyika Mountains, Hartebeests are commonly met with, notably at Vuwa, 
Mrali, and Taowira. At Nkanga, during my stay there, a cow was killed in 
a game-pit, and of this animal I secured the horns and frontal bone. Asa 
rule, I have seen Hartebeests in herds numbering from half a dozen or even 
less to perbaps fifteen or twenty, but I never remember having come across 
more than that number. ‘This Antelope possesses extraordinary vitality, and 
in this respect is very little behind the Water-buck.” 
Mr. B. L. Sclater, R.E., who has recently passed two years in the Shiré 
Highlands, and has traversed nearly every part of that district *, informs 
us that he considers this Hartebeest to be the commonest of the larger 
Antelopes there, after the Waterbuck. He met with it in all parts of the 
country, more frequently in the open districts, but also in the wooded valley 
of the Shiré, sometimes singly, and at other times in larger or smaller 
herds. On the Tochila plains under Mount Milanji, at an elevation of 
about 2000 feet, in November 1891 he saw a large herd of this Antelope 
mixed with Zebras. 
From Nyasaland, so far as we can make out, Lichtenstein’s Antelope 
extends northwards to the plains of the Wami River opposite Zanzibar, 
where Sir John Kirk procured specimens, which are now in his collec- 
tion. In the hills of Usagara, north-east of this district, B. lichtensteini is 
replaced by B. cokei, as already mentioned in our article on the latter species. 
Herr P. Matschie, of Berlin, considers the Hartebeest of German East Africa, 
which he says extends as far north as the Pangani River, to be different from 
B. lichtensteini (although he admits that the horns of the two species very 
closely resemble each other), and proposes to call it B. leucoprymnus. We 
are not, however, with due respect to Herr Matschie’s views, yet prepared to 
* See ‘‘ Routes and Districts in Southern Nyassaland,” by Lieut. B. L. Sclater, R.E., Geogr. 
Journ., Noy. 1893. 
