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Provinces, so probably is present in Benin, Ondo, Calabar, and Warri 

 Provinces (Haywood, 1932) . It is apparently common in the Gabun, 

 and in the southern Cameroons. It is "numerous" in the equatorial 

 forests of the Belgian Congo but in the Ubangi-Shari district is found 

 only in the Ubangi Basin, in small numbers (at most a few hun- 

 dreds), localized in Haute-Sangha, Lobaye, Ouaka, and Haut- 

 Mbomou. It does not seem to have diminished except in the Ouaka. 

 In this region it was completely protected since 1916, then partly in 

 1931, and once more completely in 1936. It occurs also in the Pare 

 National d'Odzala in the Middle Congo and in general appears to be 

 threatened not with extermination but with diminution (L. Blancou, 

 in letter of 1937) . A. J. Jobaert, in response to queries, writes that in 

 the Belgian Congo very few are now killed by Europeans, "but cer- 

 tainly the natives, and especially the pygmies, destroy a considerable 

 number, although it is totally protected by law ; they were certainly 

 quite numerous a few years ago." 



In the eastern part of its range, the race schweinfurthii is locally 

 common as far as the border of the rain-forest area in Uganda and 

 extreme western Tanganyika. In the upper Congo region, Lang and 

 Chapin found it common, as about Aba and Faradje on the north- 

 eastern border of the rain forest, and at Avakubi, Niapu, and Medje 

 within the forest. On the other hand, reports from the Uganda 

 Game Department (1928) indicate that in Kigezi "it would appear 

 that the numbers of this species are diminishing. It is, however, 

 likely that a permanent change of quarters has resulted in its dis- 

 appearance from localities where it was previously known. It has 

 been ascertained from Ankole that the parties or families of Chim- 

 panzees are great wanderers and not confined to specified localities. 

 However, information both from Toro and Bunyoro districts also 

 records a recession from areas in which till recently these animals 

 were seen and heard." In Tanganyika, Chimpanzees have been 

 recorded as far south as the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, 

 south of Kigoma, in the Mahare Mountains. Footprints and about 

 a dozen sleeping platforms were noted by B. W. Savory. They have 

 also been found on the west side of the lake as far south as the 

 Marungu district. Mr. Savory found collecting of Chimpanzees very 

 difficult here, not only on account of the nature of the country but 

 also on account of the superstitious fear of the natives, who believe 

 these apes are reincarnations of human beings and that a gun fired 

 at one of them will surely burst (Dollman, 19356, pp. 15-16) . On 

 Mount Kivu Chimpanzees are said to be found but are extremely 

 localized. Derscheid records them from Mount Henu and in the 

 bamboo forest south of the Karissimbi Volcanoes. 



While such areas of rain forest as are found on some of the more 

 eastern isolated mountains, as Kilimanjaro, Kenya, and Elgon, 



