HORNS OF THE BONGO DISPLAYED BY 'NDOROBO HUNTER 



In wet dark forests (Mau Escarpment, Uasin Gishu) six thousand feet above sea level, the elusive 

 bongo follows its trails, hunted by the 'Ndorobo natives and the forest leopard. We may con- 

 sider this antelope {Boocercus eurucerux inaaei) a highland representative of the eland. Both 

 male and female bear the long sharp horns with which it is said they break down high 

 branches to browse on the leaves. The color is bright chestnut with a dozen conspicu- 

 ous white stripes across the back. Specimens for a United States National Mu- 

 seum group were shot by Kermit after five days' hunting through the 

 almost impenetrable forest. The distribution of the species is as 

 remarkable as that of the giant eland — it occurs only in the 

 small area in British East Africa (from Mau Escarpment 

 east to Mt. Kenia) and far over on the west coast 

 along the Gulf of Guinea. Fewer than a half 

 dozen white men have ever seen the bongo 

 in its native haunt 



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