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with the square-cut, non-prehensile upper lip. The existence of the 

 square-lipped rhinoceros in the Nile Province of the Uganda Protectorate 

 is now proved. The animal is probably found eastwards as far as the 

 vicinitv of Lake Rudolf, and also in the Western Province of Uganda, in 

 Buddu, and Karagwe. Speke and Stanley both shot "white" rhinoceroses 

 in Karagwe and Ankole in the 'sixties and 'seventies. 



As already mentioned, the horse tribe in Uganda is represented by tlie 



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Nubian wild ass in tlie north and north-east, Grevy's zebra in the north- 

 east and east, and Grant's zebra everywhere except in forest. 



The common hippopotamus is still found in every river with water 

 enough to cover his recumbent body, and in nearly every lake or marsh 

 in the Uganda Protectorate. The animal is very dangerous to navigation 

 at the north end of Lake Albert and on the Upper Nile. He is conse- 

 quently not much protected by the Game Pegulations (purposely), as 

 there is no immediate danger of his becoming extinct ; for in the vast 

 marshes of Kioga and Kwanya he will long be preserved from the white 

 man's rifle, and will be out of the way of steamer routes. I have noticed 

 among the hippopotamuses of the Victoria Nyanza a marked development 



