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Title: Wild game in Zambezia
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Maugham, R. C. F. (Reginald Charles Fulke), 1866-1956
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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buffaloes. Zambezia contains two different families ofwildebeeste, the first the type I have just im-perfectly described, and the second, called forinadequate reasons the Nyasaland Gnu,found but sparsely in that British Protectorate,but existing much more numerously in thecentre of the Quelimane district and the rollingcountry between Chiperoni Mountain and thewide plains of Boror. The Nyasaland varietywas discovered by my old friend Mr. H. C.Macdonald about the year 1896, who shot thefirst specimen secured not far from Zomba. Thedifferences between the ordinary brindled and theNyasaland gnu are chiefly that whilst the firstnamed is, as described above, extremely hairyabout the head and neck, the latter, with theexception of a somewhat lanky mane, possessesbut little in the way of hirsute embellishment ofan exuberant character. A further peculiaritydisplayed by the Nyasaland variety is a rathersingular inverted white chevron upon the frontalbone an inch or two below the eyes. Whether
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THE BRINDLED GNU 129 this chevron is constant or not, or tends, as inthe case of the elands, to be individual ratherthan general, it is of course difficult authori-tatively to say, but there are grounds forsupposing it to be much more marked in somespecimens than in others. On wide, i oiling, or flat plains borderingforest country and near to water wildebeestemay at times be seen in very large herds. Inthinly forested, woodland scenery, although notoften found, they may at times be met with, butin smaller numbers. Often in the early morningone may see them feeding quietly on their wayback from water to the edge of the forest, andagain at late afternoon they may be observedin a long string making their way down for theirevening drink. They are grass - feeders, andgreatly given to associating with other animals,especially water-buck, zebras, and other dwellersin the open plains. At a short distance theyappear to be almost black, the contrast beingdoubtless heightened by the pale colour

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