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we first found Buffalo tracks, but these indicated only a few scattered 
animals. Continuing several days’ journey to the vicinity of Um 
Orug, a large island in the stream bed, we finally came upon Buffaloes _ 
in such numbers as are hardly to be found elsewhere in Africa at the 
present day. At Khor Galegu was the last native village, and at 
some distance above this began a series of so-called ‘meres,’ which are 
great marshy areas often a mile long, and even at this dry season 
(February) moist or even boggy, with a rank growth of high grass, 
now largely eaten down by the wild game. For to these places re- 
sorted the large ruminants for miles around. It was near such a 
meadow, near Um Orug that we encountered a herd of some 250 
Buffalo as they came at sunset to drink at a large pool in the river bed. 
Later we saw what was no doubt the same herd on a great ‘mere’ 
below this spot. On a ‘mere’ near a camping spot called Beit el 
Wahsh, we saw a second herd of about 100 old and young, and near 
a camp E] Abiad, a herd of some sixty or more on a similar ‘mere.’ A 
very large old bull was seen here, that seemed to have been driven 
from the herd and was at the opposite side of the ‘mere.’ This and 
two other old bulls that were found together on another ‘mere’ 
far from any herd, fell to Dr. Phillips’s rifle. They were all much 
battle-scarred, and one had lost an eye, and its ears were badly torn. 
The appearance of a herd of Buffalo at a distance is highly charae- 
teristic. They mass closely together, and their great black bodies 
form a solid rank, whose outline is hardly broken by the heads and 
horns, as these are carried nearly on a level with the back. The 
small White Egret often feeds close among the herds. At Abiad we 
saw a large flock of these birds, their white plumage in strong contrast 
to the black bulk of the great beasts. 
STREPSICEROS STREPSICEROS CHORA (Cretzschmar). 
Northern Greater Kudu. 
Antilope chora Cretzschmar, Riippell’s Atlas reise nérdlichen Afrika. Saugeth., 
1826, p. 22. 
Pocock (1905) has proposed to distinguish the Greater Kudu of — 
northern Africa as a distinct race from that of South Africa, and 
revives Cretzschmar’s name for it. It is readily distinguished by its 
fewer white body stripes. 
Unquestionably the Kudu is the finest of the antelopes of the Nile | 
