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could screw your head on to your umbrella and gently elevate it till it looked over the 
parapet, especially it vour eyes were placed quite at the top. If they think themselves 
followed, down go their heads nearly to the ground and they retreat at a slouching trot, 
keeping completely out of sight. If you can manage to catch sight of one of these 
animals before he sees you, and that is seldom, do not shoot him, but watch him 
feeding. You will not have such a chance at the Zoo, for this species has never been 
brought alive to Europe. When he has consumed what he can reach in a normal 
attitude he rears up and stands on his hind legs, assuming a perfectly erect position. 
With the fore feet, which are carried level with the cheeks, he holds the boughs down, 
aud assists his balance. If he happens to be facing you, so as to show his white belly, 
the appearance is particularly odd, being that of a tall brown man clad in a white 
apron.” 
It will be recollected that Lithocranius walleri, although actually better 
known to us from Somaliland, was originally discovered in the southern part 
of its range, in British East Africa. Here, according to Mr. Hunter, it is 
“‘ very rare in the Kilimanjaro district, though numerous up the Tana River.” 
Lieut v. Hohnel, who accompanied Count Teleki’s expedition to Lake 
Rudolph, informs us that it is common also on the Upper Tana, between 
Hameye and the mouth of the Mackenzie River, but that none were found 
on the Guaso Nyiro. Mr. Jackson, in the first volume of ‘Big Game 
Shooting,’ writes as follows concerning the habits of this species in British 
East Africa :— 
“The East-African Waller’s Gazelle is very much smaller than that found in the 
Somali country. There is no mistaking this Antelope for any other, on account of its 
extraordinarily long and thin neck, which in the case of a fully adult buck, killed by 
myself at Merereni, was only 10 inches in circumference. Two females measured only 
7 inches each round the neck. When walking and seen at a distance these animals 
look not unlike pigmy Giraffes, as they carry their long necks stretched out at an 
angle. “They frequent the open bush fringing the outskirts of dense thickets, into 
which they at once retreat on being disturbed. Their note of alarm is a low short 
‘buzz’! This Gazelle is essentially a bush-feeder. At Merereni I once watched a doe 
feeding on a small-leaved bush not unlike the privet in appearance, and several times 
I saw her rear up on her hind legs, bend down a branch with her fore legs, and feed on 
the leaves in this upright position like a goat. This quaint- looking little Antelope, like 
the Bushbuck, is apt to haunt one particular spot, and may be seen in or quite near to 
it for weeks together. They are very shy and not easy to stalk, and, as they have a 
happy knack of hinding behind bushes in the most effective manner, they are not easy 
to see.” 
The Gerenuk was well represented in the collection of Mammals obtained 
