LIVINGSTONE’S ANTELOPE 
NEOTRAGUS LIVINGSTONIANUS 
T HIS species is nearly allied to the Zanzibar antelope, but is 
somewhat larger and redder in colour. The ears, too, are larger 
than in that species, as well as the horns, which are not only 
thicker, but considerably longer, attaining a length of five 
inches. They are only present in the males, and are beautifully 
ringed from the base to near the tips, as in the Zanzibar antelope. 
Wherever I have met with these little antelopes in the neighbourhood 
of the Lower Zambesi from Tete to Shupanga and in Amatongaland to the 
south of Delagoa Bay, I found them living in forest where there was a good 
deal of undergrowth, or in scrubby bush. They live alone or in pairs, and 
lie very close during the heat of the day, commencing to feed in the 
evening. They live principally on leaves and berries, but eat the tender 
shoots of young grass as well. Unless they are driven out of the bush by 
beaters and shot as they cross open glades in the forest, these little 
antelopes must be hunted in the early mornings and late evenings, when 
they may be met with moving about in the more open parts of the forest 
they frequent. Great caution is required to approach within shot of them, as 
their senses of scent and hearing are very acute. 
