PROCEEDINGS 



GENERAL MECTINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



PAPERS. 



1. The Fiiuna of East Africa and its Future. 

 By C. W. HoBLEY, C.M.G., C.M.Z.S. 



[Received October 17, 1921 : Eead February 7, 1922.] 



I liave been asked by the Secretary to give some of nay 

 impressions of Britisli East Africa, which is now known as 

 Kenya Colony. 



I am naturally diffident in addressing a learned society like 

 this, and my only claim to attention is that there are probably 

 few present this evening Avho have had such a long experience of 

 the country of which I propose to sj)eak. My connection with 

 East Africa began in 1890, and since that time I have served 

 continuously in the Uganda Protectorate and British East Africa, 

 and have during the whole of that period been a keen observer 

 of the fauna of the area, so have natui'ally chosen that subject for 

 my remarks this evening. 



The country has been so often described in books of travel and 

 sportsmen's records of slaughter, that any general description is 

 unnecessary. I therefore propose to confine myself to a few 

 remarks on the faima based on personal observation. 



I was fortunate enough to be able to travel in the country 

 when it was in what may be termed the exploration stage ; that 

 is to say, before the advent of any Eui'opean settlement and the 

 consequent disturbance of natural conditions.- JSTeedless to say, 

 game was far more numerous over the whole country, but 

 particularly in the favoured areas (?'. e., the great plains) in those 

 days than it is to-day; and on looking back and trying to compare 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1922, No. I. ^ 1 



