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of the Uganda Protectorate. The northern variety, Hippotragus 

 Baheri, is found in the northern part of the Nile Province, 

 though it is nowhere common. It is a very shy antelope, and 

 sufficiently protected by the Game Laws against Europeans, though, 

 like all the others, liable to be slaughtered by the natives. The 

 common roan antelope is found, to a number of about fifty in- 

 dividuals, on the left bank of the Kagera, in Southern Ankole, 

 and it appears desirable that this small number should be abso- 

 lutely protected to avoid extinction. This antelope is very common 

 in Karagwe, on the right bank of the Kagera ; though, as the 

 Kagera is an impassable obstacle to a rhinoceros, it is probably 

 equally so to the roan antelope, so that it is doubtful if the 

 numbers would be naturally kept up by the antelopes wandering 

 into Ankole from the areas further south. Jackson's hartebeeste 

 is common in the Uganda, where the nature of the country admits 

 of any open country antelopes finding a habitat. They are very 

 numerous throughout the Nile Province, but are replaced by Dama- 

 liscus hartebeeste at a point about eight miles north of Gondokoro. 

 The only hartebeeste in Southern Ankole is also the Damaliscus, 

 there being no Jackson's hartebeeste whatever in this area. 



Kobus Defassa is the common variety of waterbuck throughout 

 the Nile Province and in Western Uganda. This variety is dis- 

 tinguished, especially in the neighbourhood of Lake Albert Edward 

 and Semliki, by very red colouring on the head and neck, and very 

 large horns. 



Almost the commonest antelope in the Nile Province is the 

 Kobus Thomasi, a remarkably handsome antelope, which is found 

 everywhere on the open grassy plains. This antelope gives way 

 to the Kobus Leucotis with the same extraordinary abruptness 

 which marks the transition from the Jackson's hartebeeste to the 

 1 Jamalisous hartebeeste, and at the same point, about eight miles 

 north of Gondokoro. As the Leucotis and the Thomasi are almost 

 of identical build and habits, there seems reason to believe that 

 these two varieties interbreed at the point where their respective 

 areas meet. Individuals were seen in the valley which forms the 

 meeting-place between the two varieties, whose appearance seemed 

 to confirm this suggestion. These antelopes are sufficiently pro- 

 tected, except against natives, by the existing Eegulations. 



In Southern Ankole there are no Kobus Thomasi, and their 

 place may be said to be taken by the Mpalla {JEpyceros Malampus), 

 of which antelope there are a considerable number in the unin- 

 habited portion of Bukanga, on the left bank of the Kagera. 

 There are perhaps 1,500 individuals of this species at the present 

 time in this district. 



In Central Uganda and along the shores of Lake Victoria the 

 extremely interesting Tragelcphas SpcJcci is found. This antelope 

 is hardly ever seen by sportsmen, owing to its nocturnal and 

 swamp-loving habits. It is practically amphibious, and scarcely 

 ever leaves the dense cover afforded by the reeds and Long grasses 

 of the swamps. Its food is almost entirely the creeping plants, 

 convolvuli and fine herbs, found in the swamps. It is, however, 



