“The Lesser Koodoo is, I consider, a more difficult animal to circumvent than the Larger Koodoo. They are met with in thick scrubby jungle and are extremely wary. I found that when once they had seen us it was almost hopeless to get a shot, as they have a habit of standing in deep shade looking back over a fork of a tree or through the top of a bush along their back track, and one cannot evade their eyesight, however quietly one moves. Moreover, they constantly go off down-wind. “They seem to be partial to moving in a restricted range, for I found that when following their tracks they always worked round in a circle. They are also very partial to disused zarebas, which they visit for the sake of the grass found there, and the finest animal I ever saw was observed sunning itself in the middle of such a zareba about 9 o’clock in the morning. Naturally I had not my rifle, and my shikari, who had it, did not see the Koodoo, and though I followed it for some six hours I never got a chance at it; but it was a real beauty. “I was fortunate in twice getting shots at animals before they saw me by coming unexpectedly on them and not tracking them, which latter operation is a weariness to the flesh and exasperating to the temper. I found the Lesser Koodoo at the foot of the Golis Range, and in considerable numbers on the Farfan and Dachato Rivers; also to the west of Hargeisa, and indeed in the Hargeisa jungle itself. They seemed to go in very small parties; I never saw more than two together, and at the time I was in Somaliland, _i.e._ from May to August, the tracks were always solitary. “They appear often to fall victims to wild beasts, more often than most Antelopes. I found one killed by a lioness, another by a panther, and a third by wild dogs. Both the last were bucks—in fact I came across many more males than females, but this may have been chance. “Their coat of slaty grey with irregular stripes harmonizes wonderfully with the foliage, and, as in the case of the Cheetah in India, exactly reproduces the chequered shade of sunshine through leaves.” We have already spoken of the occurrence of the Lesser Kudu on the Brava Coast in Southern Somaliland, and this species is stated by Mr. Hunter to be one of the commonest Antelopes on the Tana River. The same writer informs us that it is also found in the bush round Taveta, and on the Kikavo River near the Sogonoe Hills, but is seldom met with near Kilimanjaro. As Mr. F. J. Jackson writes (‘Big Game Shooting,’ vol. i. p. 304), the Lesser Kudu is confined, in British East Africa, principally to the belt of dry bush-country which extends from the coast to 100 miles inland. Mr. Jackson continues his remarks with the subjoined interesting notes on this species:—