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furnished the British Museum with a skin and skull from that locality. He 
says it is “common there, in bush interspersed with aloes on dry soil,” and 
‘appears to subsist without water.” 
Finally, Mr. F. J. Jackson, in his interesting volume’ on ‘ Big Game 
Shooting,’ gives us the following information on this Antelope :—‘ The Paa 
is found throughout East Africa in thick and open bush on dry sandy soil. 
It is exceedingly plentiful on Manda Island, opposite Lamu, Merereni, the 
thick bush east of Taveta, and again in Ngaboto in the Suk conntry. It is 
the smallest of the Hast-African Antelopes, and is usually bagged with a 
shot-gun and No. 5 shot, as it darts about among the bush and scrub like a 
rabbit. The flesh of this little beast has a strong flavour of musk and is 
very disagreeable to eat at all times, but, in the rutting season is altogether 
uneatable ; the natives, however, revel in it. Its note of alarm is between 
a shrill whistle and a scream. It feeds on the leaves of various shrubs, and 
doubtless its curious little prehensile nose is admirably adapted to securing 
its food. The Paa is found throughout the year in the driest and most arid 
wildernesses, where for several months there is neither rain nor even a drop 
of standing water for many miles round. It is therefore quite evident that 
the juices of the vegetation on which it feeds and the dews at night are 
sufficient for its requirements. The best way to obtain this little beast is to 
take three or four men to act as beaters, and they must thoroughly beat every 
bush at all likely to hold a buck, as it is in the habit of lying very close, 
and it takes a good deal to move it, but when once started it affords capital 
snap-shots.” 
South of Kilimanjaro this Dik-dik has been obtained by Herr Neumann 
at several localities in the interior of German East Africa, in Irangi and 
Northern Ugogo, and on Mount Gurui, and by Bohmer near Mpapwa. But 
Sir John Kirk assures us that in his extensive experience he HS never met 
with it on the coast south of the Sabaki River. 
The variations in colour of this species have caused us some difficulty, as 
while some specimens are strongly black-lined, without any, or with little, 
rufous on the sides, neck, and throat, others are clear rufous, almost without 
lining, on these parts. The strongest-lined specimen we have seen comes 
from Kilimanjaro*, while the most rufous is from Lamu. Curiously 
* We are indebted to the authorities of the Smithsonian Institution for a series of measurements 
of the hoofs of the Kilimanjaro Dik-diks collected by Dr. Abbott. These measurements have 
