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well to remember that a wounded buck has serviceable 
horns, and it is by no means loath to use them. The 
species is very widely distributed, but is especially 
numerous and fine-horned round the Mau and Kenya 
forests and in the gullies that intersect the Ithanga 
hills and the slopes of Ngong. They may be obtained 
with ease and certainty by driving, but stalking them 
round the edge of forest like roe-deer is to obtain the 
maximum of sport they can afford. Does and young 
bucks furnish about the best meat of any antelope. 
The Lesser Kudu gives a splendid excuse for an 
enjoyable outing. Nor need the sportsman go very 
far afield. Until the last four or five years his habitat 
was little known, and he was held to be a rare and 
notable prize. Luckily, investigation has proved the 
species to be both numerous and widely distributed. 
Unless very much disturbed, Lesser Kudu feed in the 
open till about nine or ten in the morning, coming out 
again after five. Between these hours it is quite 
useless to look for them. In hunting them the very 
greatest caution must be observed. If the hunter be 
observed before the hunted the result is a shrill 
whistle and the glimpse of a white scut. There is 
something especially fascinating about the chase of 
this animal. Not only is the trophy very beautiful, 
but its habitat is always wild, unpopulated country. 
The meat, which is rather tough, is said by some 
natives to produce stricture, a result which, I am glad 
to say, I have not experienced. A fine pair of horns 
would be anything over 30 inches round the curves, an 
average pair about 28 inches. The species exist in 
the following localities, the list being by no means 
comprehensive. M’toto Andei, Tsavo, Kenani and 
Voi, all on the railway line. The lower Tana, round 
