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that lake. (See The Great and Small Game of Africa, 
by Mr. Rowland Ward, p. 477.) 
Gerenuk. — Lithocranius walleri . 
Remarkable in appearance—with its abnormally 
long, giraffe-like neck—the gerenuk is equally remark¬ 
able in distribution. Its head-quarters are in Somaliland, 
thence spreading southwards through (British) Jubaland 
to the Tana River; but there it stops. Broadly speak¬ 
ing, no gerenuk are found throughout the central zone 
of British East Africa (that is, the line of the Uganda 
railway). But to the southward, leaving a blank belt 
of 100 miles or more in breadth, these antelopes turn 
up again on the Seringeti Plains, south of Voi, and 
thence westward, skirting the base of Kilimanjaro, and 
beyond into German territory. 
Since writing the above, my friend and Spanish 
shooting-partner, the Marquis de la Scala, who with Mr. 
R. de la Huerta and the Duke of Penaranda, has just re¬ 
turned from a most successful trip in British East Africa, 
writes me : “ We only came across this species once, up 
north near the junction of the Guaso Nyro and Guaso 
Narok. I was lucky in bagging the only individual we 
saw, and it happened to be a male. We heard of several 
being got near the German boundary; and on our 
journey back towards the coast, we saw one from the 
railway carriage window near Sultan Hamud.” 
Hunter’s Antelope.— Damaliscus hunteri. 
On the Tana River only and northwards therefrom. 
Topi. — Damaliscus j imela. 
This species we had included in our programme ; but 
were prevented from reaching its habitat on the Mau 
Highlands owing to the outbreak of the Nandi rebellion. 
The topi is not uncommon there, but more plentiful on 
the Tana River and in Jubaland. This antelope, like 
its South-African relative, the tsesseby, is beautifully 
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