This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...are--fairly dense bush or scrub to which to retreat when disturbed, or to lie-up in during the hottest part of the day, 'park-like' tracts or open glades in which to feed, and water within reach. It is nowhere found in anything approaching the numbers that were formerly seen in some parts of south-east Africa, where ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...are--fairly dense bush or scrub to which to retreat when disturbed, or to lie-up in during the hottest part of the day, 'park-like' tracts or open glades in which to feed, and water within reach. It is nowhere found in anything approaching the numbers that were formerly seen in some parts of south-east Africa, where immense herds were common, and where, as the natives used graphically to express it, the whole bush would sometimes become red with them; neither, so far as I know, does it occur continuously over any wide extent of country. In small parties, or herds, of from ten, twenty, thirty, to forty or perhaps fifty, but rarely, I think, more, it is, however, scattered here and there over the country from within about 50 miles of the coast (as on the edge of the Taru desert), through Masailand to the basin of the Victoria Nyanza on the one hand, and on the other from the banks of the Sabaki and the Tana to the neighbourhood of the Lorogi and Matthews ranges. Its haunts in Central Africa are, for the most part, in almost untrodden wilds, where there is no one to interfere with it; and it is therefore unlikely that it was ever more abundant than at the present day. It is fairly common in the neighbourhood of the Guaso Nyira river, north of Mount Kenia. "The impalas in this part of Africa generally have wider horns than those from the south; this, so far as I am aware, being the only respect in which they differ from their southern brothers. Their colour often matches so well with certain tree-stems or the ant-heaps common in some parts, that it is easy for an unpractised eye to overlook these antelopes when standing motionless in the bush. I have, however, often wondered whether this 'protective colouring' in such animals is really of any practical val...
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