BULLETIN NUMBER TEN 



31 



Recently an enormous drive was carried out under the 

 aegis of the Natal Provincial Administration, and many 

 men from all over the Union took part in the butchery, 

 which extended over a fairly large area in Zululand. It 

 is said that quite a number of these so-called "sportsmen" 

 never had a rifle in their hands before, and the mystery 

 is that more accidents and irregularities did not take place. 

 As it was, four of the rare White Rhinoceros were killed, 

 and the game was scattered all over the country, thereby 

 largely defeating the aims and objects of the drive, which 

 was to rid the area of game and so to try and do away 

 with the "nagana" disease of cattle (i.e., typanosomiasis) . 



One must feel for Major Vaughan-Kirby, F. Z. S., the 

 Game Conservator of Zululand, who has done his utter- 

 most, but who is up against a tough proposition. He is, 

 however, not the man to take opposition lying down, and 

 it is hoped that his energetic protests will bear fruit. 



NY ALA (Nyala angasi) . 



This beautiful antelope is one of the most localized 

 species we have, so far as distribution is concerned. It 

 is found only in a few well wooded portions of a narrow 

 strip of country along the east coast, from Zululand to 

 Gazaland in Portuguese East Africa. In the latter coun- 

 try they are, however, becoming more scarce every year, 

 owing to the poaching which the Portuguese authorities 

 seem powerless to prevent. 



In Zululand possibly about a thousand at the outside 

 remain alive today. The principle stronghold is the 

 Mkuzi Game Reserve. The only place south of the Mkuzi 

 River where they are found is the 'Sipicayi Bush at the 

 northern extremity of False Bay. These animals, how- 

 ever, as a rule carry poor heads, and Major Kirby thinks 

 that native trapping and indiscriminate shooting will soon 

 exterminate the species. In the Mkuzi Reserve they are 



