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continued feeding, without lying down, from the middle of 

 the forenoon, when we struck their tracks, until the middle 

 of the afternoon, when we unfortunately alarmed the 

 animals, whereupon they went straight up the mountain 

 and over the rim rock. We twice found the night beds of a 

 herd, which, as our 'Ndorobo trailers pointed out, had been 

 occupied for the whole preceding night. It was cold, rainy 

 weather, and the dark of the moon; perhaps they might 

 feed under the full moon, and in better weather. They do 

 not graze, but browse, cropping the leaves, flowers, and twigs 

 of various shrubs, and eating thistles and the flowering tops 

 of certain rank plants; the stomachs of Kermit's specimens 

 contained leaves from a vine allied to the common grape, 

 Cissus. The 'Ndorobo said they sometimes broke branches 

 with their horns, and sometimes scored the earth with them. 

 They wear deep trails through the gloomy mountain forests 

 in which they dwell; these trails converge toward the rapid, 

 foaming brooks which run between the steep, thickly 

 wooded spurs of the mountains. 



The bongo resembles closely the typical species of West 

 Africa, but appears to be larger and darker colored and per- 

 haps marked with a few less transverse stripes. No exact 

 comparison, however, can be made at present, owing to the 

 lack of specimens from West Africa available for examina- 

 tion. 



The color of an adult male is bright burnt-sienna or 

 chestnut, the body marked by twelve to fourteen conspicu- 

 ous white bands from the dorsal mane to the lower sides. 

 The stripes cover the area from the base of the neck to the 

 base of the tail. Along the median dorsal region extends a 

 thin mane of black hair crossed at intervals by the white 

 bands. The tail is burnt-sienna like the back above with 

 a narrow band of white below and a long tuft of black hair 

 at the tip. The breast and belly are solid black. The 



