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some stew. The most remarkable monkey in all this region is probably 

 the Colobiis, which apparentlj^ offers a new variety or sub-species in the 

 country round Kilima-njaro. remarkable for having an entirely white, 

 lieavily-plumed tail. The common species, with a black tail tipped 

 with white, I have shot in the forested plains near the coast. The 

 Colobus monkey is almost the only one that quite avoids the neigh- 

 bourhood of man ; the other genera frequent the vicinity of native 

 plantations, and doubtless profit by the abundance of cultivated food. 



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Fig. I. — Grant's Gazelle (GascUa gnvitij. 



I never observed any Galago (a lemuroid animal) in this district, nor 

 do the natives speak of one, although it is a genus well represented in 

 other parts of Africa." 



The sporting trip of Sir Robert Harvey and his friends to 

 Eastern Africa, in 1887, and the consequent pubhcation of Si-r 

 John Willoughby's "East Africa, and its Big Game" (5), resulted 

 in another important contribution to our knowledge of the 



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