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Show 654 MR. B. CRAWSHAY ON THE [Dec. 2, about Taowira, and behind Kaundi, to the N.W. of that region. I have, too, now and again come on them in the hills between Nkanga and Ncheweri. At the foot of the Wa-kinga Mountains, in the Upper Lufira country, I have also seen them. On the East Coast, I have occasionally come across them in the hills to the south of Chitezi's (Chiteji's), and between that and Malo. I have never seen more than a pair together, though, in places where they are numerous, one occasionally sees as many as three or four on the move at tbe same time. When wounded, I have noticed Klip-springer cry piteously, bleating not unlike a young Goat. The venison is, to my thinking, excellent; and the skins are prized by hill tribes, who make bags of them for carrying grain, for which they are well suited, being unusually thick and durable. The hair is very curious, rather resembling soft bristles, and I have heard the term "minga" (thorns) applied to it by natives when describing the animal. 4. NANOTRAGUS TRAGULUS (Licht.). The Steinbuck, I believe, will prove to be common in Nyasa-land, at any rate in those parts where Duiker are found ; but for myself I have only succeeded in obtaining one specimen, a female, which I killed on the Chitimba River, a little to the north of Chombi (Mt. Waller). This the Ahenga with me pronounced to be " Yisya " (which is the name by which they know the Duiker) ; but I had no difficulty in distinguishing it from that animal, inasmuch as the dark brown mark on the forehead and down the nose was wanting, as was also that on the legs, which were in this case of an almost uniform red with the body, while the white belly in this Antelope was very much more conspicuous than in the Duiker, there being no gradual blending of the white and reddish brown, such as I have usually noticed in the Duiker. I may, however, be wrong in assuming this Antelope to have been a Steinbuck, since, at the time I examined the specimen, I had had very little previous knowledge of the Steinbuck ; but, at any rate, I am fully persuaded the animal in question was not a Duiker. 5. ./EPYCEROS MELAMPUS. The " Impala" of the Angoni, " Nswala" of the Anyanja, Ajawa, and I believe of all the Nyasa tribes, is not common to all Nyasa-land, but where met with these Antelopes are as a rule found in even larger numbers than Water-buck, and I have seen them, I daresay, in herds numbering one hundred or more. On Nyasa itself, I only remember having come across them in three districts, all on the West Coast. In 1885 I saw some very large herds on a clean sandy plain, covered with mimosas, half a day's march beyond Mbapi, to the north of Cape Maclear ; here there appeared to be little other game |