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districts and the Lake Mweru district and may be a different variety to the 
Inyala of South East Africa, inasmuch as the males retain white spots and 
stripes on the skin to a greater extent, and do not assume such a grey fur at 
maturity. The Inyala, locally called B5o, is a very rare animal frequenting 
dense thickets. Its horns somewhat resemble those of the bushbuck, but are 
much larger proportionately, much wider apart and slenderer. They may 
measure as much as 22 \ inches in length along the curve. (I have a pair of 
horns giving this measurement.) I have only twice seen skins of the adult 
a male bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus) 
animal. They were extraordinarily beautiful in colour—the females a deep 
chestnut with narrow stripes and spots in pure white and a black line along 
the middle of the back from the neck to the base of the tail; the male purplish- 
grey with white markings. The Situtunga (1 Tragelaphus spekei) is not found in 
Nyasaland but is met with abundantly in the swamps of Lakes Mweru and 
Bangweolo, in the Luangwa Valley and in other parts of British Central Africa. 
This Tragelaph has taken to an entirely aquatic residence and the hoofs are 
enormously developed. 1 The horns of the Situtunga, unlike those of the rest 
of the animals of the genus Tragelaphus , have two turns instead of a turn and 
1 Another instance of great development of the hoof for the purpose of traversing marshy ground 
exists in Tragelaphus gratus of West Africa. 
