Luxn^ore (1950) lists three breeds of cattle m this Province. 

 The huge, big humped, short legged short horned Tapos a ^eed of 

 Eastern District is guessed to number from ^0, 000 to 70 000 head. 

 It will be generations before a thorough study of cattle-tick 

 relations can be undertaken in this fascinating, wild area. The 

 second! or Mongalla breed, is a dwarf East African zebu, less _ 

 Xa^f^u? feet high, with thin skin, fine coat, nervous daspos^ 

 uZ, and considerable agility. This isolated ucuntain breed is 

 ii^h'less comn^n than the Taposa. TheDidingan^untain cattle 

 Tnav represent a separate breed. Long-horned Nilotic type cattle, 

 Z wSch "e SudaS is famed, are kept in small nu^-^ --^^.J^ 

 Nile bv the Mandari, Bari, and Nyangwara tribes. Nilotic cattle 

 were frequently brought iAto various parts of ^he Province, mostly 

 for slaughter, during the period of the present study. In Torit 

 StricTs^l herds'of mixed Mongalla-Taposa breeds e^^t - 

 tsetse-free areas. Juba District, once an important cattle area, 

 nnr^sesses only small herds as does Yei District except for 

 +r ?^^n Ku ^a A strong cattle tradition from the nineteenth 

 centSv P^Jsisfs t; ttis SeL A hundred square miles of tsetse^ 



Slih^^z^ :ri:! --ti^a^d^v^r^:^^-^^^ st 



s^ed from Ai:S^lave traders by being hidden in Lanya Hill caves. 



A variegatum is represented in practically every collection 

 fromt ttretioug hout tL Province but ^he few collections from 

 the west bank contain many more specimens than those from the 



n^e+^i^t., A leoidum and R. pravus, most numerous in eastern 



Zstl^l St rare or'abinrtH-EHTeast bank except po^sjbly i" 

 rr^ls Ot.e. apecia^ a^irex, o. l^^^^^-^. 

 east bank ncuntains are H. acicuiiier , _ n . P-=^ > rs.„+-icT1?^ 



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