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ON A COLLECTION OF SKINS FROM UGANDA. 



in large numbers to feed daily at a table, on syrup provided, 

 settling without fear upon the head, shoulders, and arms of the 

 lady who fed them. 



Text-fig. 164. 



Nest of the Grej^ Struthidea. 



Some Mmntncds from Uganda. 



Dr. C. Ohristy, F.Z.S., exhibited specimens from a collection 

 of skins of antelopes, hyrax, monkey, cheetah, sei-val and serva- 

 line cat, &c., obtained in the Chagwe forests in the sovith-east of 

 the Uganda Protectorate, and made the following remarks : — 



" Perhaps the most interesting specimens in the collection 

 before you are those of Gephalophus weynsi. This red duiker 

 was first described by Mr. 0. Thomas, F.R.S., from two skins 

 from eastern Congo. Subseqviently a specimen was obtained by 

 Mr. L. M. Seth-Smith in the Budongo forest on the east of Lake 

 Albert. An imperfect skin in the National Collection, labelled 

 CephalopMis johnstoni, also obtained fi-om the Lake Albert region, 

 and described some time ago by Mr. Thomas, may possibly also 

 belong to this species. 



" My own four specimens were shot in the Mabira foi-ests moi^e 



