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although they are occasionally met with throughout most 

 of Uganda. A favorite place for them in Uganda Is the 

 Budonga forest, east of the Albert Nyanza, where Akeley 

 has recently secured specimens for the American Museum 

 of Natural History. They are also to be found In the 

 Bugoma forest, farther south; in the Semliki Valley, and the 

 region about Ruwenzori generally; and the forest area at 

 the mouth of the Kagera River, on the west shore of the 

 Victoria Nyanza. North of Mount Elgon they occur in 

 limited numbers In the forests clothing the slopes of the 

 numerous high peaks such as Debaslen, Kizlma, and Agora. 

 They occur also in the grass country near Gondokoro and 

 throughout the whole Lado Enclave, or western side of the 

 Nile north through the Bahr-el-Ghazal drainage. North- 

 ward along the White Nile they occasionally occur still as far 

 north as Kaka, where they reach the river by way of the 

 streams flowing from the Abyssinian highlands. In the 

 low but desert portions of British East Africa, which are 

 quite uninhabited, the elephants still have considerable 

 freedom of movement. The middle and lower Tana Valley 

 is occupied by them, as is also the coast strip south of It, at 

 least as far as the mouth of the Sabaki River. North of 

 the Tana River we find them still in the desert region domi- 

 nated by the Northern Guaso Nylro. At the present time 

 they seldom or never come to the river, but are found a 

 few miles north of it watering at the brackish desert springs 

 and feeding on the foliage and twigs of the desert acacias. 

 In this region they are found in small family parties north- 

 ward to Mount Marsabit, Mount Nyiro, and throughout 

 the desert generally as far as southern Abyssinia and the 

 north end of Lake Rudolf. On the southern border of 

 British East Africa a few elephants are still to be found In 

 the Kilimanjaro forest. 



The total number of skins and skulls of the Cape ele- 

 phant examined by us comprise some fifty specimens rep- 

 resenting the following localities: Mount Kenia, Marsabit 

 region. Lake Rudolf, Uasin Gishu Plateau, British East 

 Africa; Lindi, German East Africa; Budonga forest, Albert 

 Nyanza, Kisinga, Uganda; Rhino Camp, Wadelai, Lado En- 

 clave; Fort Manning, Nyasaland; northern Rhodesia; Cape 

 Elizabeth, South Africa. The East African and the Uganda 



