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In this part of Africa the Roan Antelope appears to have been first 
observed by Speke, who met with it in swampy ground near Kazeh in 
Uniamwesi “in considerable numbers,” and sent home a single head. 
Herr Matschie records it as observed by Bohm in Uganda. Herr Oscar 
Neumann kindly informs us that during his two years’ journeyings in East 
Africa he only met with one herd of this Antelope, out of which he shot 
five specimens, all females. ‘This was on the 24th of September, 1893, on 
the upper River Bubu, halfway between Irangi and Mount Gurui. ‘ When 
approached, the herd did not go off at full speed, but trotted away and then 
broke into a slow canter.” Herr Neumann believes he could have shot 
more of them if he had not been exhausted by hard running. 
Herr Matschie kindly furnishes us with the following additional localities 
for this Antelope in German East Africa:—Upper Pangani River, south of 
Kilimanjaro (Kaiser and Schillings); between Lumbwa and Kavirondo 
(Schillings); and Ufipa in Ukonongo (Hésemann). 
In British East Africa, likewise, this Antelope appears to be local and 
rather rare. Mr. Jackson believes that he saw it on the northern slopes of 
Mount Elgon (Big Game Shoot. i. p. 292), and, more recently, has recorded 
that Capt. F. S. Dugmore, R.N.R., shot a male on the Athi Plains in July 
1896*. Mr. Jackson also writes to us from the Ravine Station on the 
Uganda Road as follows :— 
“In April last, two marches from here, I saw a herd of 7 Antelopes much resembling 
the Roan. They were about 800 yards off, and I had a good look at them with a 
powerful telescope before commencing a stalk, which, I regret to say, was unsuccessful 
through one of them, that I did not notice, seeing me. There were four cows, one bull, 
and two half-grown calves. In colour they were like an Oryx, and not unlike it in 
shape, though larger and longer on the leg. The back of the neck was arched, like a 
Sable, and appeared to carry a short dark zebra-like mane. The ears were very long 
and tufted, and the horns of both the bull and cows were thick in proportion to their 
length, the bull’s perhaps 20 inches or more, and curved backwards like a Roan. With 
the exception of one calf they were all standing under a big tree in the shade, and 
as they were all broadside on to me I could not make out what the facial markings 
were like. As the calf stood facing me, its ears stood out almost at right angles to its 
head, with a slight droop towards the tips. They appeared to me to be not large 
enough for Roan (I have only seen those in the Natural History Museum), and I believe 
that they are more likely to be H. bakeri. I feel sure that they are of the same species as 
that I saw on the northern slopes of Mount Elgon in 1890.” (See P. Z. S. 1897, p. 454.) 
* See ‘ Field,’ Ixxxviii. p. 764 (1896). 
