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stalk. It is extraordinarily tough, and requires a great deal of killing. 
When wounded it takes to the reeds along the river-banks and in the swampy 
hollows, but when only alarmed prefers to keep to the open for safety. 
This Antelope is evidently plentiful near the shores of Victoria Nyanza, as 
nearly all the Waganda canoes are ornamented on their high projecting prow 
with its frontlet and its horns. ‘These beasts are usually found in small 
herds, consisting of a buck and three or four does. I have also seen one 
herd of some twenty-five, consisting entirely of bucks.” 
Mr. Ernest Gedge has kindly favoured us with the following notes on this 
Antelope :—*“ My experience of these animals has been but small, owing 
to their extremely local distribution. I first encountered them in Upper 
Kavirondo, to the west of Mumia’s, in the vicinity of the Nzoia River, in the 
month of November. On another occasion I saw them near the Nile, when 
on an elephant-hunting expedition in Uganda, and again in the province of 
Buddu to the N.W. of the Victoria Nyanza. 
‘As far as my experience goes it would seem that these are water-loving 
animals, and not to be found except in the vicinity of swamps and rivers. 
“The times at which specimens may best be secured are the early morning 
and towards sundown, when the animals leave the shelter of the high reeds 
and thickets (in which they appear to lie up during the heat of the day) 
and come to their feeding-grounds. Four or five is the greatest number 
I have ever seen at one time, more generally they are met with singly 
or in pairs. 
“They are not very difficult to stalk, as they are generally near covert, or 
on broken ground of some kind, favourable to the hunter, and, moreover, they 
have not the shy, suspicious nature of the Hartebeest, unless some of the 
latter happen to be in their vicinity, in which case they become more difficult 
to approach. 
“Their tenacity of life is very great, and unless disabled at once the 
chances are against the hunter, the impenetrable nature of the swamps and 
jungles to which they fly when wounded precluding all hope of pursuit. 
‘Their colour is a rich rufous, turning to white on the belly and inside 
the thighs, the females being somewhat lighter in colour than the males. 
Their whole appearance is handsome and well proportioned, whilst the head 
makes an exceptionally graceful trophy. I would mention that the last 
specimen I procured was a single buck, which I shot in the vicinity of 
