Big Game Shooting, volume 1 (of 2)Phillipps-Wolley, Clive
General
Big Game Shooting, volume 1 (of 2)
Phillipps-Wolley, Clive
Game and game-birds; Hunting
The following is a complete list of the antelopes at present known to
exist in British East Africa:--
Antelopes, from the sportsman’s point of view, can be divided into two
kinds: those which frequent the open plains, and those which are found
in the bush. The antelopes coming under the first head would include the
1. Eland (_Oreas canna Livingstonei_).
2. Wildebeest, white-throated (_Connochætes taurinus albajubatus_).
3. Hartebeest, Coke’s (_Bubalis Cokei_).
4. Hartebeest, Lichtenstein’s (_Bubalis Lichtensteini_). The _B.
leucoprymnus_ of Dr. Matschi.
5. Hartebeest, Jackson’s (_Bubalis Jacksoni_).
6. ‘_Topi_’ (_Damalis senegalensis_). The _D. jimela_ of Dr. Matschi.
7. _Damalis Hunteri._
8. Roan antelope (?) (_Hippotragus equinus_). Seen north of Mount Elgon.
9. Sable antelope (_Hippotragus niger_).
10. Oryx, East African (_Oryx collotis_).
11. _Kobus kob._
12. Lesser Reedbuck (_Cervicapra bohor_).
13. _Gazella Grantii._
14. _Gazella Thomsoni._
15. _Gazella Petersi._
16. Oribi, Abyssinian (_Nanotragus montanus_).
17. Oribi, East African (_Nanotragus hastatus_).
18. Steinbuck (_Nanotragus campestris_).
Those found in thick bush, open bush, or on the outskirts of the bush,
and which take to the bush when disturbed, include:
1. Waterbuck (_Kobus elipsiprymnus_).
2. Sing-Sing (_Kobus defassus_).
3. Kudu (_Strepsiceros kudu_).
4. Lesser Kudu (_Strepsiceros imberbis_).
5. Bush-buck (_Tragelaphus sylvaticus Roualeyni_).
6. Impala (_Æpyceros melampus_).
7. Gerenook (_Lithocranius Walleri_).
8. Duyker (_Cephalolophus Grimmii_).
9. Red Duyker (_Cephalolophus Harveyi_).
10. Mountain Duyker (_Cephalolophus spadix_). This duyker is found on
Kilimanjaro at high altitudes.
11. _Cephalolophus melanorheus._
12. Klipspringer (_Oreotragus saltator_).
13. _Neotragus Kirkii._
14. _Nanotragus moschatus._
15. The Sitatunga (_Tragelaphus Spekei_).
ELAND
The striped variety of the eland is the only one found in East Africa.
It is known to the Swahilis as ‘Mpofu,’ and is decidedly a local beast.
It is seen more often in open bush and country thinly wooded with
mimosa-trees than quite out in the open. In 1887 it was plentiful round
Taveta, where I have seen as many as sixty to seventy in one herd. In
the open bush country west of Mount Kisigao elands are fairly numerous.
Other places in which they are found are the park-like country below
Ndi in Teita; the open country east of Ndara and north of Mount Maungu;
and the Siringeti plains. I have also seen them between Lakes Nakuro
and Baringo, and again in Turkwel, in the Suk country. As a rule they
go about in herds of four or five up to fifteen or twenty. Sometimes
two or three bulls will be found together, and very often an old bull
quite by himself.
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