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The discoverer of this fine Antelope, the late Mr. George French Angas, 
was an accomplished artist and traveller, and the author of several books on 
Africa and Australia. Angas first met with this species on the northern 
shores of St. Lucia Bay, in Zululand, during his journeyings in that district 
in 1847. Here, he tells us, it inhabits the low undulating hills, scattered 
with mimosa-bushes, which border the northern shores of the Bay. On 
returning to England, Angas showed his notes and sketches of this Antelope 
to the late Dr. Gray, who assured him of its being an animal new to science, 
and communicated them to the Zoological Society of London in the name 
of the discoverer. Angas was not successful in obtaining specimens for 
himself, as the Boers, he tells us, refused to part with them, and the two 
plates which illustrate his paper in the Zoological Society’s ‘ Proceedings ’ 
were lithographed by Waterhouse Hawkins from his notes and sketches. 
It should also be mentioned that the Antelope was named, not after Angas 
himself, but after his father, Mr. George Fife Angas, of South Australia, 
who, we are told, had always “taken great interest” in his son’s travels and 
researches in natural history. In a folio work called ‘ Kaffirs Illustrated,’ 
published in 1849, Angas again figured this Antelope, on a plate containing 
representations of the male, female, and young, but did not furnish any 
further particulars concerning its life and habits. 
The next observer of Angas’ Antelope in its native wilds appears to have 
been a well-known hunter, Proudfoot, who met with it on the banks of the 
Maputa River, about sixty miles above its embochure into Delagoa Bay, and 
exhibited specimens of both sexes, shot by himself, at a meeting of the 
Zoological Society of London on July 9th, 1851. On the Maputa, Mr. Proud- 
foot stated, on exhibiting his specimens, that the Jnyala, as the natives call 
it, was at that time more plentiful than on the Umcoozi or Umbelozi, in the 
same district, where it was found, though rarely. ‘They occur in small 
troops composed of one ram and four or five females, with their young: they 
always resort to the densest bush, and browse chiefly on shrubs.” 
In June 1854 the well-known African sportsman, William Charles 
Baldwin, was in Amatonga-land, on a hunting expedition from Natal. On 
the 25th of that month, as he tells us in his ‘ African Hunting,’ he met with 
the first ‘“‘ Inyalas” he had ever seen, and succeeded in bagging a fine male, 
and subsequently more of them in the same district. A tinted lithographic 
plate in Baldwin’s volume, drawn by Wolf, contains an excellent repre- 
sentation of a group of these Antelopes. 
