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Mr. Crawshay and Mr. Sharpe have obtained specimens of this Antelope, 
which, according to the latter, is often confounded by the natives with the 
Lechee and Vardon’s Antelope under the common name “ msala.” 
In German East Africa, according to Dr. Matschie’s excellent Handbook, 
the Pallah occurs in many localities all over the country. At first misled by 
the association of the horns of a Lesser Koodoo and a skin of a Pallah, 
Dr. Matschie proposed to found a new species of Koodoo upon this animal, 
and to call it Strepsiceros suara. Afterwards recognizing his mistake he 
proposed to retain the term swara for the East-African Pallah, and to separate 
it specifically from the South-African animal as Mpyceros suara, on the 
ground of certain small discrepancies in colour. But after examining many 
specimens of the Pallah from East Africa we have come to the conclusion 
that the differences pointed out by Dr. Matschie are not confined to 
individuals from the same locality, and we cannot therefore regard 4. suara 
as a distinct species. 
The late Mr. F. Holmwood, formerly H.B.M. Consul-General at Zanzibar, 
wrote to us, “I have met with the Pallah in the countries of Usagara and 
Uzeguha, about 150 miles straight inland from Zanzibar, where they were 
very plentiful. The country has an elevation of 500 feet and is well watered. 
The Pallah go in troops of from 15 to 120. I once saw a pack of wild dogs 
hunt and run down one of these Antelopes which they first separated from a 
large herd.” 
In British East Africa the Pallah is well known, and has been obtained by 
all the great sportsmen that have visited that territory. Mr. H.C. V. Hunter, 
in his appendix to Sir John Willoughby’s ‘ Kast Africa,’ speaks of this 
Antelope as “common everywhere in thin bush and on the plains.” 
Dr. Abbott, as recorded by Mr. True, sent to Washington a good series of 
specimens obtained in 1889 from Taveta and Mount Kilimanjaro, where it 
had likewise been met with by Sir Harry Johnston during the Kilimanjaro 
Expedition of 1884. Mr. F. J. Jackson, in his notes on Antelopes published 
in the first volume of ‘ Big Game Shooting’ of the Badminton Library, tells 
us that the Pallah is not met with in the coast-district of British East Africa. 
‘“‘ But 1t occurs in small herds about 60 miles inland, and is plentiful at Adda 
and in the Teita country, and is found as far north as Turkwel in suitable 
localities, that 1s, in park-like open bush and thinly-wooded country, not far 
from water.” ‘The best heads,” Mr. Jackson says, “‘are obtained between 
