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THE SING-SING 



The Sing-Sing (also known to the natives as ' Kuru ') 

 resembles the waterbuck in habits, but is easily distinguished 

 from it by its darker colour, and by a considerable amount of 

 rufous hair on the top of the head, as well as by an entirely 

 white rump in place of the elliptical white band of the other. 

 The horns are also as a rule longer and more massive than 

 those of the waterbuck, the horns of the latter never growing 

 to the size they do in South Africa. It is not met with until 

 near Lake Baringo, and extends west to Uganda, where it was 

 first obtained by Captains Speke and Grant. It is fairly 

 plentiful in the open bush country of Turkwel ; but it does not 

 appear to go about in such large herds as the waterbuck. I 

 have never seen more than five or six together, and more often 

 a bull and two or three cows. 



THE GREATER KUDU 



The Greater Kudu is a rare beast in East Africa, and is only 

 found in certain places. There are always a few in the Teita 

 country west of Ndara and Kisigao and on the banks of the 

 Tsavo river, down which it ranges from the head-waters to 

 the Sabaki, and then north up the Athi river. All these places 

 are more or less undulating, very rough, dry, and stony, and 

 covered with thick bush. 



LESSER KUDU 



The Lesser Kudu (Swahili, 'Kungu') is very plentiful on the 

 banks of the Tana river. In 1885-86 it was also numerous at 

 Merereni, on the coast. A few are found in suitable places 

 near Taveta, and as far west as the Sogonoi hills in German 

 territory. They appear, however, to be confined principally to 

 the belt of dry bush country extending from the coast for 

 about 100 miles inland, and I think that very few of them 

 range west of the Masai country. I was told by Messrs. 

 Hobley and Bird-Thompson, on their return from a trip up the 



