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showed any signs of uneasiness; then they looked awhile, kicked their heels in the 
air, and galloped off a bit and had a little fight in play, came back again and continued 
playing about there while the oxen were being inspanned. 
“On another occasion, in November, I found a cow and calf by themselves in the 
middle of the day, on an open flat. I sat down on the top of an ant-hill to watch, 
and presently, after inspecting me carefully at 800 yards distance, the cow lay down on 
the top of another ant-hill, the better to keep me in view, while the calf played about 
and nibbled the grass; after half an hour or so the cow got up and they moved 
off leisurely to the hills.” 
Passing to the north of the Zambesi we have already recorded the 
occurrence of the Roan Antelope on the Manica Plateau in the Barotse 
country on the testimony of Mr. Selous. Herr Lorenz. in his list of 
Dr. Holub’s Mammals, also catalogues a male specimen obtained by that 
traveller in the same district. Further north it was found by Mr. Alfred 
Sharpe to be abundant near Lake Mweru, and five heads of it were sent 
home by him in 1895. Mr. Sharpe, on his journey from Lake Nyasa to 
Mweru in 1892, first met with the Roan Antelope after crossing the Saisi, 
which flows into Lake Rikwa (see P. Z.S. 1895, p. 723). In the Protectorate 
of Nyasaland this Antelope would appear to be not so common, and 
Mr. Crawshay did not include it in his list. But it occurs, according to the 
late Capt. Sclater, in the Shiré Highlands on the Tochila Plains between 
Blantyre and Milanji (see P. Z. 8. 1895, p. 728), and Major Frank Trollope 
is stated to have shot specimens on the east coast of Lake Nyasa (Johnston, 
Br. Centr. Afr. p. 318): 
On the Nyasa-Tanganyika plateau between the two lakes, according to 
information supplied to us by Mr. James B. Yule, the Roan is one of the 
most abundant Antelopes, and is met with in herds of from 20 to 30. 
Passing on northwards we now come to German and British Eastern Africa, 
on specimens from which countries Herr Neumann has lately based his 
Hippotragus rufo-pallidus. As already stated, we regard this local form, so 
far as present evidence goes, as at most not more thau a subspecies of 
H. equinus. As regards its alleged variation in colour, it should be recol- 
lected that an excellent observer, Mr. Selous, tells us that these Antelopes 
‘‘ differ very much one from another in colour, some being of a strawberry- 
roan, others of a deep dark grey or brown, and others again so light as 
to appear almost white at a distance” *. 
* P, Z. 8. 1881, p. 756. 
