14 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



Museum by Lord Delamere were two new species, the Somali 

 wart-hog, Phacochoerus delamerei, and the desert bushbuck, 

 Tragelaphus delamerei. A notable discovery, in 1900, was 

 made by Major Gibbons, who discovered the white rhi- 

 noceros in the Lado Enclave while engaged on his explo- 

 ration of Africa from south to north. 



Two years later Major Powell-Cotton entered upon his 

 exploration of the region northwest of Mount Elgon to the 

 banks of the Nile. He traversed the highlands bordering 

 the Turkana country and the region about Mount Agora, 

 much of which had never before been visited by a Euro- 

 pean. A detailed account of this region and the hunting 

 experiences which befell this sportsman are given in his 

 book, "In Unknown Africa." The chief object of this 

 exploration was the gathering of specimens of the game ani- 

 mals inhabiting the district. Two subspecies of giraffe 

 have been named from this material, Giraffa camelopardalis 

 rothschildi and G. c. cottoni and the highland oribi, Ourebia 

 montana cottoni^ besides several other less distinct races. 



The most recent big-game animal to be discovered in 

 East Africa is an obscure forest species, the giant forest pig. 

 Lieutenant Minertzhagen was instrumental in bringing this 

 remarkably distinct pig to the notice of naturalists. In 

 1905, while engaged in exploring the forest regions of Mount 

 Kenia, he secured from some of the Wandorobo pieces of 

 the skin of a large pig. Later he secured other similar 

 pieces of skin, together with two skulls of a similar pig in the 

 Kakumega forest lying at the base of the Nandi Escarp- 

 ment. These skulls enabled Oldfield Thomas, of the British 

 Museum, to determine the relationship of the animal, which 

 proved to be a new genus and quite intermediate between 



