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Butanuka, where the grass was about 4 or 5 inches long, and just 

 gro\\ing. Passing back over this country in June, when the grass 

 was two feet high and in a dry and withered condition, I saw 

 scarcel}' any except on places «here there had been a fire and 

 young grass was springing up. They probably had gone off to the 

 immediate neighbourhood of the lake. I thought this important, 

 in view of the possibility of cattle-ranching at this point. The 

 Hartebeest, I fancy, is the same \\hich I saw in Buddu and on 

 the Nandi range, probably Jackson's. The Kob {Oohus koh), of 

 which I obtained horns, seems pretty common near the Albert 

 Edward. Another Waterbuck, which may have been the fcjiiig 

 Sing (Oobus uiictuosKs), is not uncommon. It has the hair and 

 reddish colour of the Sing Sing, but seemed to me a larger animal 

 and with much larger aud broader hoofs than the Sing Sing. 

 Unfortunately, I did not think it worth while to bring home a 

 skin. 



In the forest on the Wimi valley, at about 8000 feet, I saw a 

 Bushbuck which I failed to get. This was not the Cephaloplius 

 aquatorialis (of which I brought the skin and skull from the 

 Victoria Nyanza), nor could it have been the Abyssinian species. 

 It was a very distmctly reddish or bright bay, Aery much lilie 

 C'e2?7iaIo2}ht(S 7iatalensis according to the description. 



There are several species of Monkey about Kuwenzori. One of 

 these is a Colohus, but I have not been able to identify it. It has 

 the long white and black fur of the Colohus guereza, but it is not 

 that species. It might be either C. caudatus of Kilima-ujaro, or 

 C. aiigolensis, but it seems to me different from the figures of 

 both of them. It is most common in the Yeria and Msonje 

 valleys near Butanuka, but I could not get a specimen. It has a 

 very curious weird screaming cry, quite unlike that of any other 

 animal. 



I brought home a specimen of Cercopithecas pluto or of the allied 

 form C. stuldmanni. The Wakondja in the Nyamwamba Aalley, 

 East Euwenzori, make a sort of pouch or pocket of its skin, which 

 they carry over the shoulder, so that the animal must be common. 

 This Monkey is extremely shy, and usually the only sign of its 

 presence is the noise of a tremendous crash amongst the branches 

 a long distance away. Once I saw very well a troop of another 

 monkey, probably a Cercopithecus also. I was alone, of course with- 

 out a gun, and sitting down very quietly on a fallen tree. Four or 

 fi.ve of the older males came quite close after some hesitation. They 

 had white marks on the face, simulating eyebrows, moustache and 

 imperial, and their expression was melancholy and unhappy. 



There are also Baboons (Papio, sp. inc.) on the Wimi Eiver, 

 AA'here the}'' gi'eatly damage the native crops. 



A kind of Lemur (probably a Galago), a nocturnal creature 

 living in hollow trees, was the only animal I heard of on the Avest 

 side of the mountain. 



A. Squirrel {Sciurus rufo-brachiatus) of West-African affinity 

 is common in the Wini valley. 



