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the publication of Harris’s ‘Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of 
Southern Africa’ in 1840. Harris devotes his fifteenth plate mainly to the 
illustration of the “rare and graceful Pallah,” which he states “ first gladdens 
the sight of the traveller in Southern Africa upon the elevated districts north 
of Latakoo.” Here in the wooded slopes. and valleys that environ the 
mountain-ranges of Kurrichane and Cashan it was met with in families of 
from twelve to twenty individuals of both sexes. 
Harris, with all his experience, could recall to his memory “few objects 
more picturesque than the graceful figures of a wandering herd of these 
Antelopes dancing and bounding through the thousand stems of the acacia- 
groves in all the poetry of motion.” ‘To these wooded districts Harris 
considered the Pallah to be restricted, not a single specimen having been 
observed in the open country. The flesh of the Pallah he characterizes as 
“tender and palatable,” although “rather dry,” like that of most Antelopes. 
In these days, however, as we are informed by Messrs. Nicolls and 
Kglington, it is only on rare occasions that the Pallah is met with in the 
Bechuanaland Protectorate, and its present distribution is described by them 
as follows:—‘‘ A few herds still linger in the Transvaal along the Crocodile 
River. Almost exterminated in the regions through which the north-west 
tributaries of that river flow, it is only when the Zambesi is reached that the 
Palla is again to be frequently met with in any number. On the Chobe 
River it is still fairly common, being unknown on the Botletle, but it is only 
after passing the shores of Lake "Ngami, and reaching the densely wooded 
banks of the Tonke, that the species again makes its appearance in a westerly 
direction. In those parts of Mashonaland and Matabeleland where it is not 
subject to continual persecution it is still fairly numerous. The Palla is 
highly gregarious, and frequents the thick, forest-clad banks of rivers, from 
which it never strays, except after periods of heavy rains, and then only when 
the pans and vleys (which are always dry during the greater portion of the 
year) are for a time filled with water. In remote parts, not very much 
frequented by man, the herds often exceed a hundred in number. Where 
not continually disturbed, this Antelope, so elegant and graceful of motion, 
is not by any means shy when approached, generally running but a short 
distance, and then standing and looking back again, a habit which easily 
permits of its being stalked.” 
In the Transvaal, Mr. Barber kindly informs us, the Pallah was plentiful 
