Notes and 
Congo forest, near the Semliki River. The 
okapi is found in the little territory of Mboga, 
which is an outlying portion of the Uganda 
Protectorate. It is also found in the adjoining 
province of the Congo Free State. This 
same forest, I believe, conceals other won- 
ders besides the okapi, not yet brought 
to light, mceluding enormous gorillas. I 
have seen photographs of these huge apes, 
taken from dead animals which have been 
killed by the natives and brought in to the 
Belgians. A careful search might reveal 
several other strange additions to the world’s 
mammalhan fauna.” 
From a Photograph. 
Comments 37 
Leopold at Brussels. The specimens now 
under examination, together with the living 
ones, all come from the Mangbettu country, 
where the okapi is said to exist in large 
numbers, and goes about in small herds. 
TAs 
In the first number of “The Living Animals 
of the World” a story was 
told of a baboon who worked 
the railway signals at a station 
up country in Cape Colony. Thanks to 
Mr. G. E. Fuller we are fortunate enough to 
be able to give in the first number of 
A Useful 
Baboon. 
THE BABOON AT UITENHAGE WORKING THE RAILWAY SIGNALS. 
Since Sir Harry Johnston’s book went to 
press, very interesting further — discoveries 
have been made by the Belgians in the 
northern parts of the Congo Free State. A 
more or less complete skeleton has been 
secured, and also another skin, these have 
been examined at Brussels by zoological 
-experts and the result is a remarkable con- 
firmation of Si Harry’s original opinions, 
which were not always shared by our 
museum authorities. It is also said that 
ten living okapis are now on them way 
down to the Congo for despatch to King 
“Animal Life,’ a photograph of this in- 
teresting animal, and also a few further 
particulars. Uitenhage the .station in 
question is about 23 miles from Port 
Elizabeth, and Wylde, the  signalman, 
trained the baboon to such perfection that 
he was able to sit in his cabin stuffing 
birds, etc., while the animal, who was 
chaimed up outside, pulled all the levers 
and points either for the Graaff Remet or 
Port Elizabeth trams, the signalman having 
certain words and signs to denote which 
lever he was to pull. At the edge of the 
