THE KORRIGUM, TIANG AND TOPI ANTELOPES 
geographical races of the korrigum antelope, only standing forty -three or 
forty -four inches at the shoulder. The topi of the inland plateaux of East 
Central Africa is a larger animal, and in colour is intermediate between 
the typical topi of the coastal regions and the tiang of the Bahr-el-Ghazal 
and Kordofan. The range of the inland race of the East African topi, though 
discontinuous, extends north and south from near the southern border of 
Abyssinia, through British and German East Africa into the northern 
portion of British Central Africa, where it was met with by Sir Alfred 
Sharpe a few years ago in very large numbers. In habits, topi and tiang, 
and no doubt the korrigum of West Africa as well, are very similar to 
hartebeests. They live in open grass land or amongst scattered thorn 
scrub, or in thinly forested districts, and often congregate in very large 
numbers. In some parts of their range, as, for instance, on the Gwas 
N’gishu plateau, they have always been excessively wild and wary and 
difficult to approach even before they had been much harried by sportsmen 
armed with long-range rifles, but further south in the Sotik country they 
are reported to have always been very tame. In the Bahr-el-Ghazal I found 
the tiang antelopes very wild and wary, though there were exceptions to 
the rule. Like hartebeests, and, indeed, all animals which live in open 
ground, all the damaliscus antelopes of the korrigum group are wonder- 
fully keen -sighted, and therefore very difficult to approach in such country. 
They are fond of standing on antheaps in order to obtain as wide a field of 
vision as possible over an open plain. If hunted on horseback, they will be 
found to be very fleet and enduring. I remember chasing a topi whose 
shoulder had been broken by a bullet. I was riding a fast horse, but 
although I put him to his utmost speed, I was unable to overtake the 
badly-injured antelope before I had chased it for at least a mile over a 
bare, open plain. Like all other African antelopes, the topi, tiang and 
korrigum are very tenacious of life; but, looking to their wildness and the 
open nature of the country they usually frequent, the most suitable weapon 
to use against them is certainly a small-bore cordite rifle with a low 
trajectory. 
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