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follows closely the steps and movements of the old cow who generally leads. They have 
a very fair power of endurance, but I think that any decent horse, if properly handled, 
will run them to a standstill. All hunters, however, are agreed that one should 
be careful in such experiments, for this Antelope is doubtless the most dangerous of all 
the tribe, there being plenty of authenticated instances of the animals turning and 
charging furiously when merely pressed too hard.” 
Again, Mr. Millais writes :— 
“The Dutchmen, who are generally pretty well at sea as regards the names of wild 
game, have never quite made up their minds what to call this animal. They consider 
that he has absolutely no claims to legitimacy on any score, and half the members 
of that nation whom you meet will christen it either ‘ Bastard Eland’ or ‘ Bastard Gems- 
bok,’ both of which are equally ridiculous and inappropriate. Though the animal, 
when viewed critically, is on the whole imposing and even beautiful, when seen running it 
looks decidedly clumsy, and wanting in both proportion and elegance; yet the head, 
when well set up and viewed among other specimens of African fauna, has a striking and 
pleasing appearance. ‘The fine blending of colours on the face, the white switches 
of hair over the lachrymal glands standing out over the black of the cheeks, the fine 
rough neck, and the long queerly-shaped ears, all tend to give the head the wild 
game look it certainly possesses. The horns themselves, though nothing compared with 
those of the Waterbuck, Koodoos, and Sable, are beautifully annulated, and look quite 
in proportion. Ward gives the maximum of males as 33 inches, and females 303 inches. 
I would call the attention of the reader, if a naturalist, to the very peculiar shape of the 
ear, and to the way that the white whisps drop from above the lachrymal sinus, making 
the hairs stand out slightly as they do in life. 
“Of all the larger Antelope, except perhaps the Eland, the Roan is the easiest to kill. 
If the hunter follows a troop up they will frequently stop and allow several shots to be 
fired at them ; but the hunter must above all things keep them in good view, for once 
out of sight the Roans know they are likely to be followed up, and it will be found next 
to impossible to approach them, their sense of sight and smell is so keen, and they 
so commonly start running long before you have spotted them.” 
Another recent authority on the Antelopes of Mashonaland, Mr. J. Ffolliott 
Darling, F.Z.S., has kindly favoured us with the following notes :— 
“Roan Antelopes are rather scarce over most parts of Mashonaland. They run 
in small troops of from 3 to 6 or 8 in number. They vary greatly in bulk and in size of 
horn ; sometimes a big bull will have a very poor head. 
“T once came across a very trusting troop of Roans consisting of a bull and four cows, 
in the morning soon after sunrise, on an open plain ; they allowed my companion to shoot 
the bull from the road: we put him on a wagon and went on to camp at a stream a tew 
miles further on. During the day the four cows came along and grazed with our oxen 
within a few hundred yards of where we were camped. When the boy went to bring in 
the oxen, I went with him and I walked up to within 75 yards of the Roans before they 
