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London zoo; in another part is the species known 

 as Vaughan's cob, and in still other parts are the 

 dusky cob, the puku cob, the lechwi cob, the black 

 lechwi, the Uganda cob and Buffon's cob. 



It was Lady Constance Stewart-Richardson, the 

 remarkable young English woman who is now 

 dancing barefooted on the London music stage, 

 who killed the record head of this last named species 

 in Nigeria. 



The Gregarious Cob 



It is of the Uganda cob only that I am able to 

 write about from my own observation and experi- 

 ence. We found them only in one place, on the 

 banks of the Nzoia River near Mount Elgon and 

 the Uganda border. They never were more than 

 four or five hundred yards from the river and could 

 not be driven away. If they were startled at one 

 point they would circle around and quickly get 

 back to the river at some other point. They seemed 

 to become homesick unless they could see the river 

 near by. We found them only in a short stretch 

 of five or six miles, although they doubtless are 



