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white-fringed tails; but they proved “too much” for 
us. They were in little groups of three or four up to a 
dozen, and all day the bucks kept beyond my reach, 
though on several occasions the hornless does were 
within shot. 
Being still weak from fever, I found this hill¬ 
climbing rather heavy work, and thought to organise 
a “ drive.” This, 
however, proved a 
system hard to in¬ 
stil into the savage 
mind, and though 
I got one shot, it 
scored a miss. This 
was a nice buck, 
about 100 
below; but 
aggravating bullet 
splintered the rock 
some six inches too 
high. Chanler’s 
reedbuck beat us 
both here and on 
other occasions; for 
we met with it again on the crater of Meningai, at 
Baringo and elsewhere. It is common, we found, on 
every rocky range or series of detached koppies, yet it 
was not till our second East-African venture that we at 
length secured a first example. 
Another rock-jumper, of which we did secure 
specimens among the Eburu hills, is the klipspringer— 
an even smaller antelope, the bucks only weighing 25 lbs. 
The upright hoofs resemble those of ibex rather than 
antelope, and the spoor, when crossing soft ground, 
gives an impression that the animal walks on tiptoe ; 
but among rocks the klipspringer equals the chamois 
in bouncing agility. Klipspringers, probably from 
having been but little disturbed at this spot, were less 
wild than the other rock-antelopes. They seemed to 
yards 
the 
SUNBIRDS 
