LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Bull giraffe in the Mimosa Jungle on Laikipia .... 78 

 Photograph by R. Tjader. 



Hippo heads showing above the surface of the water in the 



Sondo River 94 



Photograph by K. Tjader. 

 Sleeping hippos in the Tana River not far from Fort Hall . 94 

 Sleeping hippo photographed close to the Sondo River, 1909 . 96 



Photograph by R. Tjader. 

 Hunting leopard killed by a shotgun with No. B. B. . . 96 



Photograph by H. Lang. 

 A magnificent bull buffalo killed in the Kedong Valley . . • 106 



Courtesy of Mrs. N. Carveth. 

 Large head of the ordinary water buck, Cobus defassa . . 106 



Photograph by H. Lang, 

 Wounded leopard on the Sotik Plains 120 



Photograph by R. Tjader. 

 Young male leopard 120 



Courtesy of W. P. Ingall. 

 Two rhinos asleep on the plains to the northwest of Guaso 



Narok, distance about forty yards 132 



Photograph by R. Tjader. 

 The same animals. Note the tick birds on the backs of the 



beasts 132 



Photograph by R. Tjader. 

 The same animals. The one facing the camera is about to 



charge at full speed 134 



At about ten yards he fell, killed instantly by a bullet from the 



big .577 Express rifle 134 



Two different types of rhinos; the upper one represents the 



bush rhino, the lower one the rhino of the plains . . 146 

 Photograph by H. Lang. 

 Another splendid trophy 146 



Ordinary bush buck, shot on Aberdare Mountains . . .154 



Photograph by R. Tjader. 

 Head of new variety of bush buck called " Tragelaphus 



tjaderi" I54 



Photograph by H. Lang. 



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