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■emerald-green in stem and leaf, and bore this blossom of silvery white 

 on the surface, which the wind swayed into foam-like ripples. The river 

 lay below in bold sweeps of sky-blue broken here and there by purple-green 

 clumps of thickly foliaged trees. As a background to this scene rose the 

 grand heights of Kuweiizori, of a blue not much deeper than the azure 

 of the sky, showing here and there flakes of white, which were snow or 

 ■cloud. The females of these waterbuck, as indeed of all the Cohus genus, 

 are without horns. Their large ears are l)lunt ; black noses give them 

 rather an asinine appearance. 



The Cohus thoniasi antelopes are pretty, graceful creatures, of pale 

 straw-yellow, with, black streaks on the legs, and white stomachs. Occasionally 



239. Thomas's kob (copcs thom.isi) 



there is an individual with a grey-white back, a " sport " which may be 

 initiating a new species. 



In the Nile Province, and perhaps also in Northern Unyoro, the white- 

 eared kob (Cobiis leucotis) abounds. 



The northern parts of the Protectorate, though offering country often 

 lacking in water and a climate which at times is unbearably hot, and the 

 countries round Elgon, Baringo, and Naivasha, give possibly the linest 

 sport in the way of a varied collection of big game, especially amongst 

 antelopes. In the north-eastern part of the Uganda Protectorate there 

 are probably a few white-bearded gnus still lingering. There are Jackson's 

 hartebeest, Coke's hartebeest, the bastard hartebeest, the pallah, reedbuck, 

 roan antelope, oryx, Grant's gazelle, Thomson's gazelle, Peters's gazelle, the 

 long-necked Waller's gazelle, the waterbuck, Thomas's kob, the oribi, the 

 madoqua, various kinds of duyker, kudu, eland, and bushbuck, and, in 



