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animals which inhabit these sanctuaries receive 

 either partial or total protection. Thus the 

 whole of the Soudan lying south of the Sobat 

 and Bahr-el-Ghazal Rivers, together with the 

 greater part of Darfur and Kordofan, has been 

 declared closed for the present — a vast area of 

 some 400,000 square miles being set aside 

 for the benefit of the game. In Uganda 

 the Sugota reserve has been for several years 

 an accomplished fact ; in British East Africa 

 the Kenia sanctuary has not only been estab- 

 lished, but has since undergone a careful 

 investigation, resulting in a prompt rectifying 

 of several defects, while a large area to the north 

 of Mount Kenia has also been declared closed. 

 In British Central Africa there are the Elephant 

 Marsh reserve (established 1896) and the Lake 

 Shirwa reserve. Even in devastated South Africa 

 it appears that it is not yet too late to save some 

 of the animals : the Sabi sanctuary promises to be of 

 real service, and contains many rare species (such 

 as the southern giraffe),^ while a refuge for the 

 gemsbok and Cape hartebeest is to be established 

 near Warmbaths. 



Eminently satisfactory as this new state of 



1 Measures for the protection of this beast appear to have been 

 taken only just in time : indeed it appears doubtful whether the 

 typical Cape race is not already extinct. The southern giratles now 

 obtained are said to differ considerably in coloration from the tawny, 

 dark-blotched specimen presented to the National Collection by Lord 

 Derby many years ago. This example was long exhibited to the 

 public in the British Museum, and many persons will well remember it. 



