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THE GAME OF BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 



moving behind a bush, or perhaps a dark object which might be game or might be 

 anything else. For this reason, when one has not yet shot some particular kind of 

 animal, there is always a strong desire to shoot one, so as to be able to see what it is 

 really like in the flesh. With the plain-dwellers a good pair of glasses suffices for this, 

 but in the bush it is different. 



However, to return to our reasons for wishing to shoot at all ; there is one more 

 I can put forward, and that is the fad for collecting heads, sometimes with the idea 

 of comparing them, and at other times with the idea of using them as decorations. 

 As the latter they serve for mementoes of many a pleasant day spent in the open air. 

 The whole idea of displaying trophies of one's own shooting is, perhaps, a little 

 bombastic, but it is this human weakness which is one of the chief reasons for 

 indulging in shooting. This weakness for amassing a quantity of trophies may be 

 best gratified on the plains, for on them roam numerous different kinds of animals, 

 most of which are only waiting to be killed. Of these the trophy hunter can shoot 

 with ease as many as his licence permits. The trophies from the bush and forest, 

 however, are, as a rule, more striking. 



On the plains the usual animals found are : — 



It is not easy to draw a hard-and-fast line as to the habitat of 

 most animals, as they tend to wander to some extent between different 



