I04 THE GAME OF BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 



I will now give a list of the commoner animals of the plains, and I will 

 detail briefly the chief plains of the country and the game found thereon. In 

 enumerating the different species to be met with the list will be treated as of 

 the game likely to be found in each locality. Only such game as are in addition 

 to, or absent from, this list will be remarked on. 



LIST OF COMMON ANIMALS OF THE PLAINS. 



The largest and most extensive plains are those generally known as the Athi 

 and Kapiti plains. The south-western portion of these plains is in the southern 

 game reserve. Its boundaries are, roughly, the Uganda Railway to N.E., the 

 E-uaso Ngiro to the N., the German border S.W., and the Tsavo river and bush- 

 country to the S. 



North of the E-uaso Ngiro there is a certain amount of plain, and a big tract 

 of open plain lies to the north-east of the railway line. On it are found all the 

 usual forms of game, though in diminishing numbers as regards the rarer and more 

 sought-after animals, such as eland and rhino. Rhino are still fairly plentiful near 

 Kiu, in a locality which has been made into a reserve for rhino. There, however, 

 the country is more of a bush type. Rhino may occasionally be seen walking 

 about in the reserve, but to the N.E. of the line, where once they used to be 

 common on the plain, they are now no longer seen, but have been either killed 

 off or driven into the bush-country east and south. 



Beyond 01 Doinyo Sapuk the bush-country commences again, and there are 

 found buffalo just outside the Ukamba province, these animals having been 

 preserved in that province until quite recently. Buffalo are also found in the 

 neighbourhood of Ngong Mountain, but they are generally just inside the reserve. 

 The habitat of these animals is always in bush, so they are out of place under 

 this heading, although they are only just on the edge of the plains. 



Giraffe are found to the south of the reserve and also to the north-east of 

 the plains near the Ithanga Mountains. 



I shall mention game indiscriminately whether they occur in the reserves or 

 out of them. 



I am writing of game themselves rather than of the shooting of them, as 

 the reader may prefer to see and photograph them rather than shoot them. 



