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The ostriches found within the Uganda Protectorate appear to be the 

 northern and East African species. At tlie present time there are three 

 types of ostriches in Africa— that of South Africa (south of the Zambezi): 

 the East African ostrich ; and the northern ostrich, which was formerly 



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found right across the Sahara from the Sudan and Nigeria to Tunis and 

 Algeria, and from Senegal eastwards to Syria and Arabia. (The ostrich 

 also in pre-historic times existed in South Russia and Western India.) 

 The Somaliland or East African ostrich has, as a rule, poor plumes in the 

 male, and the feathers of commerce are for the most part derived from 



