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of white bifurcated bristles on the muzzle. It is the last vestige of the 

 hair which once covered this aiiiiiiars body before it took so markedly to 

 an a(|uatie existence. It is just possible that tlie natives' stories of a 

 huge pig in the Seniliki forests may jjoint to the extension of the range 

 of the Liberian or pygmy hi})po})otamus (a forest-loving animal; right 

 across through the forest zone from the west coast of Africa 1o the 

 Semliki Eiver. The Belgians state that there is a very small hipjio- 

 potamus in the south-western part of tiie Congo Free State. 



As regards the pig family, that group of artiodactvles is represented in 

 the Uganda Protectorate by the Ethiopian wart-hog in the west and centre 

 and south-east, and by the P^lian's Avart-hog in the nortii-east; also by 

 the bush-pigs, or river-hogs. Of these there are the common East African 

 species, which is widely distributed throughout the I'rotectorate, and the 

 red river-hog of West Africa, which is found in the Semliki Forest. 



It may be of interest to mention that the camel as a domestic animal 

 has penetrated into the Kudolf and Nile Provinces of the Uganda Pro- 

 tectorate, though this creature in pre-historic times was once found in 

 Algeria and Arabia. There is nothing to show tliar it was ever indigenous 

 to tropical Africa. 



The giraffe is found at the present day in the Eastern Province of the 

 Uganda Protectorate, in tlie northern part of the Central Province, and 

 in the districts east of the Nile. So far as 1 know, in the north and 

 south-east of the Protectorate the species or variety of giraffe is tliat 

 known as the northern or three-h.orned, the ordinary form of eiraffe which 

 is found right across the Sudan from Abyssinia to .Senegambia. (In the 

 Niger and Benue districts it is replaced by a distinct and very tall species, 

 Giraffa peralta.) lint in the north-eastern part of the Protectorate, about 

 Lake Baringo and ■Mount Elgon, the male giraffes possess five horn-bumjjs 

 or ancient horn-cores. I first heard of this peculiarity from a Goanese 

 i\ory-trader ; but as he had no specimen to show me, I did not attach 

 much importance to his remarks. In the month of May, 1901, we were 

 returning from a journey round Mount F^lgon, and for the first time in 

 the Uganda Protectorate I found myself among large herds of giraffe. 

 I was anxious to secure good specimens for the British Museum. 

 Mr. Doggett and myself therefore shot two males and two females. I was 

 surprised to notice that each of the males had five horn-bumps,* the 

 females being restricted to three. The four heads thus procured are 

 now in the British Museum at Soutli Kensington. I give here a photo- 

 graph of a male five-horned giraffe as it lay on the groimd just alter 



* The two extra "horns" are two paralle'l biimiis ov knobs risinj? from the ridge at 

 the base of the skull, close to the tirst vcricbruiu. Tiicy are occii)ital as compared with 

 already existing parietal an I frontal protuberance;. 



