A FINE BUCK NELLUT BAGGED. 20I dead. Colvin, however, succeeded in conveying to England a very diminutive specimen of what appeared to be the same species.

One day my brother William took his camera down to the khor to endeavour to photograph any antelopes or other animals that might come there. Both antelopes and baboons made their appearance ; but, after successive attempts, he found it impossible so to arrange the camera as to be able to expose the plate without disclosing himself ; accordingly, he discarded the camera for the rifle, and had the good fortune to secure the finest buck nclliit that we obtained during the expedition. The horns of this magnificent animal measured thirty-nine and a half inches in a direct line from the base to the tip, and fiftynine inches measuring round the curves.' Every cloud has a silver lining:" the converse often, unfortunately, holds good. As he got up to leave his hiding-place towards dusk, he locked his rifle, preparatory to scrambling down a steep bank and through thick bushes. The noise he made disturbed a panther, which had approached unseen to within a few feet of his position, and which bounded into the jungle without even giving him time for a snap-shot.

The whole of our stay at Om Hagar was most enjoyable; and I think I cannot do better than give a few extracts from my diary of our last days there.

I Mr. F. C. Selous, in his interesting book entitled "A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa," mentions shooting a specimen of this antelope, which he designates as perhaps the handsomest species in the world. The horns of this animal measured forty-three inches from base to tip, and sixty-four measuring round the curves. It was the largest he ever came across.