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Show ^890.] ANTELOPES OF NYASA-LAND. 663 "Nkozi" oftheAhengaand Anyika, "Kaiigosa" of the Awanyakyusa, is very generally met with in the hills, if not too steep and rocky, and in the plains ; but appears to prefer a flat or undulating country, well wooded and with intervening open glades. In 1883 I first met with this Antelope on tbe plains between tbe Kiwira and Insesi Rivers, in Makyusa's country, at the north-west of the Lake; there were just three in the troop, and with the help of another gentleman I was lucky enough to kill one-a nearly full-grown bull, which was subsequently identified by Mr. Pulley, one of our party, as Lichtenstein's Hartebeeste, and of which I now exhibit the skull (Fig., p. 662). In 1885 I saw several herds of these animals to the south-east of Nyasa, and between it and Lake Shirwa, and from all accounts they must be plentiful in the Yao country, to the east of the Lake. On the West Coast, later in the same year, I came across a good many on the Kanjamwana River, and between A m u w a and Mpemba's: here they usually consorted with Impalas ; but on the same plains there were also to be seen in their company, from time to time, Water-bucks, Reed-bucks, and occasionally Koodoos or Elands. Inland from Bana to the north again, I was told there were Harte-beestes, and I saw some heads of animals said to have been killed there. In 1889-90 I repeatedly saw a few in the low red-sandstone hills to the north of Chombi, between Makwawa's and Afunan-chenga's, on the Hara River ; here they generally went in company with Water-bucks or Zebras, and once I noticed three Hartebeestes herding and feeding in the midstof some thirty or forty Water-bucks, all cows. Between Nkanga and Karonga's, on the coast-line, and in all the intervening country between that and the Anyika Mountains, Hartebeestes are commonly met with, notably at Vuwa, Mrali, and Taowira. At Nkanga, during my stay there, a cow was killed in a game pit, and of this animal I secured the horns and frontal bone. As a rule, 1 have seen Hartebeestes in herds numbering from half a dozen or even less to perhaps fifteen or twenty, but I never remember having come across more than that number. This Antelope possesses extraordinary vitality, and in this respect is very little behind the Water-buck. 13. CONNOCH^ETES TAURINA. This Wildebeeste-the " Nyumbu " of the Anyanja and Ajawa, but apparently unknown to the natives round the northern half of Nyasa is not met with anywhere in the immediate neighbourhood of the Lake, though it is found a little to the south-east, and also, I believe, to the south-west. I have never myself come across any of these animals, though I have often noticed that the natives of Cape Maclear and other places north and south of it make use of their tail-hairs for stringing beads on their combs, and these, I fancy, must come from the country to the westward. |