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rule, frequents only the vicinity of rivers and swamps that are never dry. 
He found it on the shores of Lake Jipi, and on the river Ziwa, to the east of 
Kilimanjaro, and in a few other places. He also saw on the hills to the 
north-west of Machako’s several small herds of it, which had evidently been 
driven up there by the grass-fires in the plains. Mr. Jackson remarks that 
these Reedbucks give a shrill whistle when disturbed, and are very shy and 
difficult to stalk, but that in long grass they lie close and sometimes allow 
the sportsman to approach to within twenty or thirty yards of them. 
In the large series of mammals obtained by Dr. Abbott in the district of 
Kilimanjaro, which has been described by Mr. True, there were two young 
male specimens of a Reedbuck which were referred by Mr. True to 
C. arundinum, but which belonged no doubt to the present species (if 
distinct). 
This species is so like C. arundinum in its general external characters that 
we have not thought it worth while to give a special figure of it. Besides 
the skull in the National Collection presented by Mr. H. C. V. Hunter, and 
used for description by Dr. Giinther, as mentioned above, and the female 
head from Uganda obtained by Speke, also already spoken of, there are in 
the British Museum two good specimens, adult and young, presented by 
Major Kenrick. The more adult of these, as Major Kenrick kindly informs 
us, was shot in July 1892, about six miles east of Kiumengelia, at the 
north-east corner of the Kilimanjaro range, and the younger one in August 
of the same year on the banks of the Pangani River, both these places being 
now within the limits of German East Africa. 
Reedbucks, as we have already stated, do not, as a rule, do well in 
captivity. The Zoological Society of London have on two occasions (in 1877 
and 1883) received female Reedbucks from East Africa which have been 
referred with some doubt to the present species. In neither instance, 
however, did they live long in the Society’s Gardens. 
February, 1897. 
