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district, Thomson’s gazelle grows horns up to 16 
inches, at least an inch longer than is attained further 
south. On one day they will prove quite tame and 
easily approached, while the next they may be most 
elusive. 
All the lesser buck provide good eating, and the 
varieties to which the settler will help himself in 
different localities are duiker, steinbok, Kirk’s dik-dik, 
common oribi—especially numerous near Londiani 
and on the Uasin Guishu plateau—and the Kenia 
oribi, which last, extremely local, is getting very 
scarce. 
