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bulls are found, and the closed country of Karamoja is said to contain numerous elephants. 

 Both Uganda and the Lado Enclave are very fine elephant countries, and there the ivory is of 

 the very best quality and the tusks of great size. In Uganda the best districts are Masindi, 

 Toro, and the Semiliki. Also between Mbale and Karamoja, north and east of Hoima, and 

 north of Nimule. Near Gondokoro there is a vast herd, consisting chiefly of females and young. 

 In the closed Bukedi country numerous elephants are reported. In the Enclave the best localities 

 are near Mahaji, Wadelai, Dufile, and inland near Mount Wati. On the west bank of the Nile 

 enormous herds are often met with, consisting of several hundreds of animals. 



FOREST-HOG. 



Native Names. 



Kikuyu Numera. Ogiek (Ravine) . Tomda (PI. Tumik). 



Ogieg Tomda (PI. Tumik). 



This animal occurs in the highland forests and also in some bush-countries. It seems to 

 prefer very thick country, and its paths and lying-up places can be seen where there is an under- 

 growth to the forest. For lying up it chooses a thick patch of bush, and in this makes a form in 

 which it is, more or less, screened from view. 



There are, it is said, three different species of forest-hog at present known in Africa, one 

 indigenous to the Cameroons, one to the Ituri Forest, and one, the meinertzhageni, to East 

 Africa. I believe these two latter are both to be found in Uganda, the last near Elgon, and the 

 Ituri or some other forest-hog to the west about Ruwenzori. 



In British East Africa the forest-hog is found in the following localities : — The forest of 

 Nandi, near Loldiani and the Mau (plentiful), the Kikuyu Escarpment, the Aberdares (scarce), 

 Nyeri Hill and in the bush near Nyeri, in the bush near Embu. 



GAZELLE, GRANT'S. 



Native Names. 



Swahili Swala (as for all other gazelles). 



Masai /En-golin. Ogieg Oldarogwet. 



LOl-warkas. Rendile Haul.* 



This animal's head is one of the best trophies of the plains. The length of horns in 

 proportion to the size of the head is exceptional. These gazelle are practically never found 

 on any but level ground or anywhere but in the open plains. They never go into bush, 

 and seem even to shun its proximity especially in the evening, probably from fear of leopards. 



There are two well-defined varieties found in British East Africa — (i.) Roberts' Grant's 

 gazelle, found both in the Kedong Valley and on the German border ; (ii.) the Northern form, 

 found about the Guas Ngiro. 



The first of these two kinds has very widely spreading horns, whilst the second kind has 

 the tips nearer together and the horns less curved, being more like the Peters's gazelle in shape. 



* The gazelle found in the Rendile country appear to me to be intermediary between the Grant's and the 

 Somali (ScEmmerring's gazelle). 



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