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antelopes abound. On Kuwenzori these are of a species new to science, 

 with a coat of a brilliant chestnut-red. Elsewhere there is the common 

 duyker of South Africa, which is an ochreish yellow with black markings 

 on the head ; or there is the little blue Cephdophns of Uganda. This 

 is a tiny antelope hardly larger than a liare (Cephalophus equatwialis), 

 of a deep blue-grey colour inclining to black. The Baganda make beau- 

 tiful rugs of the small skins of this pretty little creature (which they call 

 ■" entalaganya "), many skins being neatly sewn together. 



237. A bTEINBUCK {RAPHICHKUS} OF THE EA&TKKN I'KoVlNCK OF XHK LUANDA rKOlECTOUATE 



Although the western part of the Uganda Protectorate contains a 

 good deal of dense forest, and consequently many tracts in which large 

 antelopes are not found, it has, nevertheless, in Buddu (west coast of the 

 Victoria Xyanza), in Ankole (round the shores of the Albert Edwai'd Xyanza), 

 -and in the Upper Semliki Valley tracts of grass-land or park-like country 

 in which antelojjes abound so far as numbers are concerned, though the 

 species are fewer than in the northern and eastern parts of the Protectorate. 

 In these western districts the principal antelopes found are the waterbuck 



