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In the year after Sir Robert Harvey’s celebrated sporting-expedition to 
Kilimanjaro (in 1886-87), of which Sir John Willoughby has given us the 
history in his well-known volume on ‘East Africa and its Big Game,’ 
Sir Robert returned to Mombasa in company with Mr. Greenfield and 
Mr. Hunter, and, after another visit to the “‘ Hunter’s Paradise of Taveta,” 
near Kilimanjaro, made a second trip, in quest of sport, up the valley of 
the River Tana, which forms the northern boundary of the dominions of 
the Imperial British East-African Company. Of this excursion Sir Robert 
prepared a short account, which has been printed as an appendix to the 
above-mentioned work. ‘The party arrived at the mouth of the Tana in 
September, and proceeded up the river in boats to Golbanto, where they 
were hospitably received at the mission-station on the river. Leaving 
Golbanto on September 28th they reached, about ten days later, a village 
called Durani, some 150 miles from the mouth of the river. Here on the 
north bank Mr. Hunter, on October 16th, shot the first specimen of the 
Antelope which now bears his name, and immediately proceeded to take the 
photograph of its head, from which the accompanying engraving (fig. 7a, p. 54) 
was taken. Other examples of this species were subsequently procured by 
Mr. Hunter and Mr. Greenfield. ‘These include two heads (male and female) 
which are now in Sclater’s custody, and on which he established the species, 
and the mounted specimen which is now in the gallery of the British - 
Museum. We are not aware that besides the examples procured on this 
occasion any other specimens of this rare and interesting Antelope have ever 
been brought to Europe. 
The female Hunter’s Antelope differs from the male in its rather smaller 
size and in its longer and more slender horns, as shown in the accompanying 
woodcuts (figs. 74 and 7¢) kindly lent to us by the Zoological Society of 
London. 
Mr. Hunter’s field notes on this Antelope (as supplied by him to Sclater) 
are as follows :— 
“We first met with this Antelope about 150 miles up the Tana River. It 
is only found for certain on the north bank of the river. It frequents the 
grassy plains principally, but I have also often seen it in thin thorny bush. 
It is generally met with in herds of from 15 to 25 individuals. 
“ At the time of the year when I came across them (October and November) 
I saw several young ones in the herds. The banks of the Tana River are 
