88 THE SOCIETY FOE THE PEESEEVATION OF" 



licences were issued. One breach of the Eegulations was reported 

 from the Nile Province, where the licence-holder was fined for 

 shooting a female elephant. For the rest, the Eules have been 

 well observed by the holders of licences, and by the natives 

 fairly well in the territories under administration ; beyond tbis, 

 in the wilder parts, such as portions of the Nile Province and the 

 large tract of country to the north of Mount Elgon, no attempt 

 to enforce the Eegulations can yet be made. 



' 102. During the year steps were taken by legislation to restrict 

 the number of animals allowed to be shot under a fortnightly licence, 

 when taken out either three months after or three months before 

 an annual licence, by providing that the total number of animals 

 shot under the two licences must not exceed the number allowed 

 by the annual licence. The Eules allowing a few licences to 

 native chiefs to shoot two bull elephants are believed to have so 

 far answered satisfactorily ; they have certainly given general 

 satisfaction in the country, and since their iss.ue I have received 

 no further complaints of damage done to habitations and crops. 



'103. The Game Eegulations have met with a good deal _ of 

 criticism at the hands of some of the would-be settlers, who point 

 out that we are preserving animals they actually pay to exterminate 

 in South Africa. Sorry as I should be to see any relaxation of 

 the rules for the preservation of the wild animals of Africa, it 

 must be admitted that the protection of elephants, deer, and other 

 game is not compatible with agricultural interests in a country 

 mapped out in farms, whilst hyaenas and jackals are the deadly foe 

 of the stock-rearer. Uganda, however, has not yet reached this 

 stage, and when it does, matters could probably bo adjusted by 

 limiting preservation to certain well-defined Eeserves.' 



BAB0T8ELAND. 



Game Eegulations for the territory defined by .the Barotseland 

 North-Western Ehodesia Order in Council of .1899 were issued on 

 January 20, 1905. Animals are therein divided into four series. 



Schedule 1. 



Bustard (including korhaan and 



paauw). 

 Franeolin (including pheasant 



and partridge). 



Dikkop. 

 Guinea-fowl. 



Sand grouse (Namaqua part- 

 ridge). 



And all such of the antelope species as are not contained in 

 Schedules 2 and 3. 



