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the kindness of Messrs. William Blackwood and Sons, we are enabled to 
reproduce on the present occasion (fig. 108). 
Sclater’s original description of this species, published in his report on the 
Mammal-collection made during Speke’s journey, was based on Speke’s 
specimens, and contained, besides a coloured illustration of the younger 
Fig. 108. 
Speke’s Sitatunga in a Papyrus-swamp. 
(Speke’s ‘ Journal of Discovery,’ p. 223.) 
animal by Wolf, a drawing of the horns and feet of the adult, which, by the 
kind favour of the Zoological Society of London, we are allowed to use again 
here (see fig. 109, p. 154). . 
Since the days of Speke the Sitatunga of this district has rarely been met 
with by travellers, as, in addition to its being exceedingly wary and timid, 
the impenetrable nature of the papyrus-swamps, which are its habitual resort, 
precludes easy access to its retreats. It is, however, occasionally trapped or 
