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on the rump. These animals, especially the former, are quite 

 as elusive as the okapi, and frequent the same haunts. 

 Though we worked hard to get them our efforts were fruitless. 



As we left the forest and came into more open country 

 we met with the waterbuck and kob again, and near Angba 

 in place of the latter we found an allied species, the Uganda 

 kob. In the open grass country around Niangara Gosling 

 shot a pair of beautiful little oribi. These were the last 

 animals he obtained before he died, and as the species is 

 new it has been named after him. It is an interesting 

 discovery, for it forms a link between the West African 

 oribi and the Abyssinian species. 



Along the Kibali the Uganda kob, reedbuck, lesser bush- 

 buck, pig, and elephant were at different times obtained 

 and observed by me in my ascent of the river. 



The scarcity of game in the Yei region was remarkable. 

 There were many old elephant-paths, but only once did I 

 see elephants on the banks. I saw a few Abyssinian buffalo 

 on some of the large wooded islands, and on more than one 

 occasion lions disturbed our peace at night. 



To speak of the elephant I must take the reader back for 

 a short while to Nigeria. 



The distribution of the elephant, " giwa " as it is known 

 by the Hausas and " kamagunn " by the Kanuri, is confined 

 in Northern Nigeria almost entirely to the south-west shore 

 of Lake Chad, the River Benue practically forming a northern 

 Umit, while they are still plentiful throughout the Munchi 

 country, the Kameruns and Adamawa. During the dry 

 season, between November and May when water in the 

 interior has dried up, elephants gain the Chad shore from 



