A FIRST PRIZE OF SUDAN 
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though keener eyes than mine have detected a deeper, 
rustier red. 
The Sudan, as before stated, can fairly claim several 
of Afric’s most notable game-beasts as being almost ex¬ 
clusively her own-—efidemic. All of these, however (save 
one), acknowledge relatives not markedly dissimilar and 
co-existent in adjacent regions of the African Continent, 
since the water-parting of Nile and Congo forms either a 
rendezvous of relatives or a centre of dispersal for diverging 
Nile Lechwi, or Saddleback, in Normal Attitude. 
types of nascent species. Our beautiful subject, the Nilotic 
lechwi, forms the single exception indicated. It is 
absolutely loyal to the Nile watershed, never trans¬ 
gressing those boundaries ; nor—saving only the Zambesi 
lechwi, 1000 miles to the southward—does it acknowledge 
a single relative, similar or dissimilar, elsewhere in Africa, 
or in the world. 
Whether within its limits, the Nile lechwi is really 
abundant, or otherwise, it is difficult to estimate, since 
no reliable census is available amid ocean-like expanses 
of reed-jungle and impassable swamp. The consensus of 
opinion among big-game hunters (many of whom have 
their own pet resorts carefully located and as carefully kept 
