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Sclater, R.E., sends us the following notes.—“In November 1891, while 
travelling between Zomba and Milanji, I was shooting in the marshes on the 
west bank of the Tochila. I saw a Gnu and tried to stalk it, but it was 
right in the open and I could not get nearit. My head man, a Swahili. 
said 1t was a Gnu (Nywméo), and he was well acquainted with that animal. 
Again, in 1892, at Midima, to the south of the Tochila, I obtained a tail 
of a Gnu from a native, who told me that formerly there was a large herd 
of them on these plains, but that he thought they were now all killed. I 
believe that Mr. Sharpe has met with the Gnu on the plains to the west of 
the Upper Shiré, between Matope and the sources of the Lesungwi River.” 
As regards the more northern portion of the British Central African 
Protectorate, Mr. Crawshay tells us that the Gnu is apparently unknown to 
the natives round the northern half of Lake Nyasa, and is not met with 
anywhere in the immediate neighbourhood of the Lake, though found a 
little to the south-east, and also, he believes, to the south-west. 
In 1864 Speke met with the Brindled Gnu in large herds in Khutu, on 
the western borders of Uzaramo, close to the Kingani River, where it inhabits 
the “ park-like lands adjoining the stream.” 
Later on Sir John Kirk obtained heads of it in the same district, and has 
fayoured us with the following notes on its occurrence in this part of German 
East Africa :— 
“ As regards the Brindled Gnu in Kast Africa, I may say that, although 
familiar with this animal on the Upper Zambezi near the Victoria Falls, 
where they were common in 1860, I have only since shot them in Ukami, 
to the west of Dar-es-salam, and on the Fiver Wami inland from Bagomoyo. 
In the plains and on the rolling ground between the River Rufiji and the 
River Wami they used to be common. I have shot them within ten miles 
of the coast, and I believe that they extend back to the foot of the mountains. 
**As I was not then acquainted with the species or variety lately found 
by Jackson, I cannot from memory express any opinion as to the identity of 
these animals, further than that they seemed to me identical with the 
Brindled Gnus I had killed years previously near the Victoria Falls and 
Sesheke on the Upper Zambezi. 
“Tn East Africa, near the coast, in the places above-named where I found 
this Antelope, it never occurs in numbers, but is often associated as an 
attendant on other game, especially upon Lichtenstein’s Hartebeest. It often 
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