262 IN AFRICA 



found all the way down the Nzoia River to Victoria 

 Nyanza. 



The cob is a curiously reliable animal. He likes 

 one certain place that he is accustomed to, and noth- 

 ing can drive him away. If you see him there one 

 afternoon, you are reasonably certain of coming 

 back the next afternoon and seeing him there again. 

 Usually they graze in some sheltered meadow along 

 the river's edge, and for recreation, so far as I 

 could see, amuse themselves by seing how many can 

 get on top of one ant-hill at one time. Some of 

 those ant-hills were literally bristling with cobs, one 

 male to each five females, and in herds of from 

 thirty to fifty. 



In architecture, the cob is nearly three feet high 

 at the shoulder, has beautiful, sweeping horns of a 

 lyrate shape, has a white patch around each eye, a 

 white belly, and a coat of yellow with black on the 

 forelegs. There is no handsomer antelope in Africa 

 than the Uganda cob, and because it is found in 

 such a restricted and remote district is accountable 

 for the fact that one seldom sees a cob head in a 

 collection of horns. Comparatively few sportsmen 

 have killed them, although they are not hard to 

 kill if one reaches a district where they are found. 

 The extreme beauty of this antelope led us to secure 

 a group of them for the Field Museum. 



The reedbuck is another of the smaller antelopes 

 that carries a beautiful head, and, like nearly all of 

 the antelopes, comes in many varieties, or sub- 

 species. 



