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what was the matter, and liardly had received the reply ' Baflfalo ' 

 gasped out by the somewhat Avinded jumbe, when round a bend 

 in tlie path came the infuriated buffalo. Salimu states that he 

 jumped up on a rock some eighteen inches high close to the path, 

 and as tlie animal came for him he fired the only charge of S.S.G. 

 Avliich he had full in its face. The animal stopped and shook 

 tl)e blood from its face, and profiting by this interval Salimu 

 essayed to clamber into tlie jtimbe's tree, but before lio had made 

 good his seat the buffalo butted the tree and nearly succeeded in 

 dislodging him. As soon as he was firmly seated he took the gun 

 from the jumbe and loaded it with No, 3 shot, which he fired in 

 the animal's face every time it came back. In all he fired at it 

 six times before it drew off, swayed, and finally fell. 



An examination of the skull shows that the S.S.G. smashed 

 a large hole in the frontal bone ; the shot was very close, so that 

 the animal must have been nearly on to him when he fired. The 

 skull was pitted with No. 3 shot in every direction, most of which 

 did not penetrate, but I imagine sovne entered by the hole already 

 made by the S.S.G., and the animal mainly succumbed to loss of 

 blood from the first charge. 



BUBALIS COKEI WEMBAERENSIS Zuk. 



A single male (1860. 370. 520. 200 mm.) from the Wembere 

 Plains near Dombolo, 9. xi. 21. I use the above, possibly invalid, 

 subspecific name as this Ilartebeest is from the type-locality of 

 this alleged race. 



BuBALTS LicHXENSTEiNi Peters. 



A male (1900. 432. 513. 210 mm.) and a female were shot at 

 Kipera on 8, ix. 22. The latter held a female foitus (630. 220. 

 260. 90 mm.), and I collected twenty maggots of a bot-fly 

 (non det.) from the nostrils of the adult. The species is quite 

 common at Kipera, the largest herd numbered perhaps twenty, 

 but they usually go in parties of five or six. When a suitable 

 thicket is found in which to rest, they return to the same spot 

 day after day. 



Damaliscus korrigum jimbla Matsch. 



A male (2230. 370. 435. 190 mm.) and female (1890. 360. 435. 

 190 mm.) Topi were shot at Sagayo on 3. xi. 22. This must be 

 A'ery near the type-locality of the subspecies. There were two 

 other adult females with calves running to heel with this bull ; 

 the female shot was the smallest of the three. In its stomach 

 were grub-like 2">nriisites. 



CoNNOClIyETES TAURINUS TAURINUS Lyd. 



Nyumbu in Kikami, Kisagara, and Kiswahili. 

 A single mnle Wildebeest (2380. 530. 480. 225 mm.) on the 

 Mkata Plains, 13. ix. 21. It was accompanied by four females. 



