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near Mpapwe, while Stiihlmann and Emin Pasha obtained specimens at 
Bussissi on the Victoria Nyanza. Herr Oscar Neumann found the Klip- 
springer near the top of Mount Gurui in Irangi (see ‘ Geographical . 
Journal,’ vi. p. 275). Even the extreme summit of this extinct volcano 
is clothed with a vegetation of alpine flowers and short grass which 
supplies it with subsistence. In British East Africa, Mr. Jackson informs 
us, the Klipspringer is met with only in the rocky broken ground on the 
slopes of the hills and large “ earth-boils” between Teita and Turkqueh, 
where there is no other game to be found. 
In Somaliland, Captain Swayne tells us, the Klipspringer is low to 
the natives as the “ Alakud.” Here they live in the most rugged mountains, 
“poising themselves on the large boulders, and leaping from rock to 
rock.” Finally, in Abyssinia we come to the most northern limit of this 
Antelope. The great explorer Rippell was the first to meet with it in 
the rocky mountains of this country, and states that his specimens were 
undoubtedly identical with the Cape form, although attempts were subse- 
quently made to separate the Abyssinian form under the barbarous name 
Antilope saltatrizoides. Weuglin also records the existence of the Klip- 
springer in the mountains of Abyssinia at elevations above 3000 feet. 
Mr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S., who accompanied the Abyssinian Expedition 
of 1867-68, gives us the following particulars of this species :—“ The 
Klipspringer is common on the more rocky of the Abyssinian hills, from 
a height of about 3000 feet above the sea, or rather less, to 8000 or 
9000. In the pass below Senafé, and in that leading from Ain to the 
Anseba, by the valley of the Lebka, these little Antelopes were frequently 
seen, and they were common on some of the rocky precipices on the 
flanks of the great valleys around Senafé, Guna-Guna, Fokada, &c., 
usually solitary or in pairs. When alarmed they frequently perch on 
the very highest rocks, their agility in leaping from crag to crag being 
remarkable.” 
In the Cape Colony it is said that the Klipspringer, when taken young, is 
easily tamed and makes a most sagacious pet ; but it does not appear to live 
long in captivity, and Mr. Bryden tells us that they are most difficult and 
troublesome to rear. We are not aware that specimens of this Antelope 
have ever been brought alive to Europe. 
