TO THE UASIX GISHU 39.5 



Our camp here was in a beautiful country, and game, 

 for the most part Uganda kob and singsing waterbuck, often 

 fed in sight of the tents. The kob is a small short-haired 

 waterbuck, with slightly different horns. It is a chunky 

 antelope, with a golden-red coat; I weighed one old buck 

 which I shot and it tipped the beam at two hundred and 

 twenty pounds; Kermit killed a bigger one, weighing two 

 hundred and forty pounds, but its horns were poorer. In 

 their habits the kob somewhat resemble impalla, the does 

 being found in bands of twenty or thirty with a single 

 master buck; and they sometimes make great impalla-like 

 bounds. They fed, at all hours of the day, in the flats near 

 the river, and along the edges of the swamps, and were 

 not very wary. They never tried to hide, and were always 

 easily seen; in utter contrast to the close-lying, skulking, 

 bohor reedbuck, which lay like a rabbit in the long grass 

 or reeds. The kob, on the contrary, were always anxious 

 themselves to see round about, and, like waterbuck and 

 hartebeest, frequently used the ant-heaps as lookout sta- 

 tions. It was a pretty sight to see a herd of the bright-red 

 creatures clustered on a big ant-hill, all the necks out- 

 stretched and all the ears thrown forward. The females 

 are hornless. By the middle of November we noticed an 

 occasional new-born calf. 



The handsome, shaggy-coated, singsing waterbuck had 

 much the same habits as the kob. Like the kob they fed 

 at all hours of the day; but they were more wary and more 

 apt to be found in country where there were a good many 

 bushes or small trees. Waterbuck and kob sometimes asso- 

 ciated together. 



The best singsing bull I got I owed to Tarlton's good 

 eyesight and skill in tracking and stalking. The herd of 

 which he was master bull were shy, and took the alarm 

 just as we first saw them. Tarlton followed their trail for a 

 couple of miles, and then stalked them to an inch, by the 

 dextrous use of a couple of bushes and an ant-hill; the 

 ant-hill being reached after a two hundred yards' crawl, 



