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attracted possibly by the sweet perennial pasture. A 
Neotragus and a Oephalophus are also found at high 
altitudes. I give here a drawing of a head of the 
little Neotragus antelope (possibly N . Kirki) found on 
Kilima-njaro. As you may see 3 it has the nose nearly 
developed into a trunk, a tendency which is very 
common, after all, among mammals, and which reaches 
its utmost development with the elephant. 
In the plains round Kilima-njaro the red hartebeest 
(.Alcephalus Cokei ) is found in myriads. This 
creature by the colour of its coat and its strange 
shape assimilates marvellously with the huge red ant¬ 
hills (habitations of the white termites) which abound 
in the districts favoured by the hartebeests. When 
you are out stalking it is really most difficult and 
puzzling sometimes to know which is hartebeest and 
ant-hill; for the long grass hiding the antelope’s legs 
leaves merely a red humped mass which, until it 
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