Lake Victoria to Khartoum 



tino-e of chestnut is visible where black meets 

 white, and on this account the skin is very strik- 

 ing, and well worth keeping. 



The female reminds one at once of the impallah 

 of East Africa, and I should say there is very 

 little difference between her and the female 

 Uganda cob, neither carrying any horns. Bar- 

 ring his colour, this cob is practically the same 

 animal as the Uganda species, but is not met 

 with till some five hundred miles further north of 

 where the ranore of this latter ends. 



White-eared cob are met with in herds of from 

 ten to forty perhaps ; in the latter case the big 

 buck has usually from three to four younger ones 

 to help him in keeping order amongst the more 

 unruly members. These other bucks will be very 

 much lighter in colour, as it is only the very old 

 ones who are almost totally black on the back. 



I should not gfive them credit for beino; un- 

 usually cute, as on the two or three occasions I 

 made their close acquaintance I was able to get 

 up fairly near. They seem to affect the proximity 

 of water rather more than do the Uganda cob, 

 and, I should say, must be hunted for near it. 



During my shooting trip on the Nile I came 

 across the white-eared cob at Jebel Achmet Aga 

 in the north, where the officers' game reserve 

 starts, thence all the way up along the White 

 Nile to Lake No on the left bank. On the 

 Bahr-el-Zeraf it occurs in exceptionally large 



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