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emerald-green in stem and leaf, and bore this blossom of silvery white 

 on the surface, which the wind swayed into foam-like ripples. The river 

 lay below in bold sweeps of sky-blue broken here and there by purple-green 

 slumps of thickly foliaged trees. As a background to this scene rose the 

 grand heights of Euwenzori, of a blue not much deeper than the azure 

 of the sky, showing here and there flakes of white, which were snow or 

 •cloud. The females of these waterbuck, as indeed of all the Cobus genus, 

 are without horns. Their large ears are blunt ; black noses give them 

 rather an asinine appearance. 



The Gobiis thomasi antelopes are pretty, graceful creatures, of pale 

 straw-yellow, with black streaks on the legs, and white stomachs. Occasionally 





239. Thomas's kob [cobts thomasi) 



there is an individual with a grey-white back, a " sport " which may be 

 initiating a new species. 



In the Nile Province, and perhaps also in Northern Unyoro, the white- 

 eared kob (Gobits leucotis) abounds. 



The northern parts of the Protectorate, though offering country often 

 lacking in water and a climate which at times is unbearably hot, and the 

 ■countries round Elgon, Baringo, and Naivasha, give possibly the finest 

 sport in the way of a varied collection of big game, especially amongst 

 antelopes. In the north-eastern part of the Uganda Protectorate there 

 are probably a few white-bearded gnus still lingering. There are Jackson's 

 hartebeest. Coke's hartebeest, the bastard hartebeest, the pallah, reedbuck, 

 roan antelope, oryx, Grant's gazelle, Thomson's gazelle, Peters's gazelle, the 

 long-necked Waller's gazelle, the waterbuck, Thomas's kob, the oribi, the 

 madoqua, various kinds of duyker, kudu, eland, and bushbuck, and, in 



