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striping upon the rump and thighs and the upper 

 parts of the fore legs. The remainder of the legs 

 are mostly white, with black bands round the fet- 

 locks, partial bands round the knees, and a black 

 line down the front of each fore leg. Altogether a 

 most strange and puzzling creature, forming, as it 

 seems to me, a clear link between the giraffes and the 

 antelopes. Nothing is at present known as to the 

 sporting possibilities of the okapi. Natives report 

 that it goes in pairs, and frequents the densest and 

 most unfrequented part of the Semliki forest, between 

 the eastern borders of the Congo Free State and the 

 Uganda Protectorate, somewhere about the region of 

 Lakes Albert and Albert Edward. It will probably 

 be no great while before some enterprising Briton has 

 penetrated these remote haunts and shot specimens of 

 this animal. 



