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diverging or parallel is a smaller species. This differs in 

 being two thirds the size of his larger relative; in being of 

 lighter buff colour; in lighter colour underneath, so that at a 

 distance it has the appearance of being on stilts; in appar- 

 ently a proportionately longer frontal bone from eyes to base 

 of horns; in the fact that the points of the horns turn sharply 

 toward each other; and especially in habit. They go in 

 small groups of from three to not more than a dozen in- 

 dividuals; are always extraordinarily shy; and do not seem 

 to care to mingle with other game. On two or three occa- 

 sions we saw them with the larger hartebeeste, when they 

 were readily distinguished at a distance. We shot one or 

 two we thought were hybrids. The species is nowhere 

 numerous, but always present in its habitat. It extends 

 farther west than does the larger form. We found it on 

 the hills above Speke Gulf. 



15. East African Buffalo (syncerus coffer radcUffei). — 

 Found everywhere between Olgoss and the lake, but no- 

 where in numbers. Widely migratory. We found indi- 

 cations of many more than we came into touch with — old 

 tracks and signs. They probably follow the grass about. 

 No large herds. Perhaps have not yet as fully recovered 

 from the rinderpest as have the British Protectorate 

 buffalo. 



16. Bushbuck (tragelaphus scriptus delamerei). — Com- 

 mon in suitable localities. Though it is true, as Roosevelt 

 and Heller say, that ^'bushbucks are solitary creatures; a 

 buck and doe, or a doe and fawn, may be together, but 

 generally we found them singly,'^ nevertheless I have seen 

 bucks together, feeding in the open, at the edge of thickets. 



