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base, and while this splendid animal stood fixedly gazing 
in the wrong direction, I succeeded, by creeping and 
running from tree to tree, in gaining a range of just 
under 300 yards. Then, in happy moment, I dropped 
him clean with a *303 bullet in the base of the neck. 
My prize proved to be a Sing-sing waterbuck bull 
WOUNDED WATERBUCK. 
(defasset), carrying horns of 28| ins. What had 
deceived me was the abnormal breadth of horn. These, 
not being set regularly, reached the extraordinary span 
of 30 ins. between tips—a measurement exceeding any 
given in Rowland Ward’s Records. I killed another 
sing-sing bull a few days later, but in that animal, 
though the horns reached 2 7\ ins., the span between 
tips was under a foot. In his dark, shaggy coat, with 
which the white collar and facial markings so strongly 
contrast, the sing-sing is an altogether handsomer 
animal than the common waterbuck. Both species 
