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Show 1890.] ANTELOPES OF NYASA-LAND. 661 must obtain them along the caravan-routes through the Yao country between the east coast of the lake and the sea. 10. CEPHALOPHUS OCULARIS (?). A species of Duiker which, following Sir J. Kirk (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 656), I call by this name is very generally met with throughout Nyasa-land, except on bare open plains or in very steep rocky country, and appears to be known as " Insa" of the Anyanja, " Gwapi" of the Ajawa, "Nyiska" of the Atonga, and "Yisya" of the Ahenga and Anyika. As regards these native names, however, I may be open to correction, as nearly all the natives of the Lake with whom I have come in contact appear not to distinguish between the Duiker and another little Antelope (which I take to be the Steinbuck), but call both by the same name, so that I have never been able to determine which of these animals is actually entitled to any or all of the above names, though I have adopted what seems to be the opinion of the majority. As I have said, Duikers are common practically to all Nyasa-land, and I have come across them almost everywhere ; I can, however, note a few districts where they have appeared most numerous. On the west coast of the Lake, between Mponda's and Cape Maclear, especially in the neighbourhood of Chuaro's, I came across a good many in 1888, and to the north of Cape Maclear I saw a few at the foot of the hills about A m u w a and between there and Mpem-ba's. At Bandawe, in the direction of Chintechi, in the low thickly wooded hills, between which are patches of long grass and reeds, I have occasionally met with them, and again to the north of that, between Chombi and Karonga's, in a broad belt of low scrubby bush bordering on the Lake. At Nkanga, in 1889,1 caught a young male fawn, which lived over a month, and then came to an untimely death through accident. Nyasa Duikers, I have noticed, vary very much in colour, ranging from a reddish brown, not unfrequently tinged with green, to almost a dark red, while in some the belly is more conspicuous for its whiteness than in others ; in size, too, they are inferior to the Duikers of Natal and parts of the Transvaal, and I have never once come across a specimen of the decided grey which the Duikers of the south generally assume. 11. CEPHALOPHUS MAXWELLI (?). This little Antelope, or at any rate a species of Blue-buck very closely resembling it, appears to be common in parts of the Nyasa country, especially in the densely wooded slopes of mountains; and though I cannot claim to have come across any in life, I have yet seen a good number of their skins-notably among the Anyika of Chombi and the adjoining mountains, where they are said to be plentiful. On the thickly wooded mountainous slopes between Bandawe and Syiska they are also said to exist, and again in some of tbe hills about Cape Maclear; but everywhere natives speak of them |