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Uganda to the Semliki valley in Toro, and to the west side of Lake Albert, 

 where it was shot by Colonel Ternan of the Uganda Rifles. Excepting in 

 places thickly inhabited, such as Kavirondo and Usoga, it is more or less 

 plentiful throughout the Uganda Protectorate wherever there is a sufficiency 

 of water. They go about in herds of from four or five— one of which 

 is nearly always a bull — up to twenty or thirty. In these larger herds there 

 are generally five or six young bulls, but these are evidently driven off by 

 the older and stronger ones during the rutting season, as I have often seen 



Fig. 28.— Defassa Sing-Sing Antelope (Coius defassa), in the Woburn collection. 

 From a photograph by the Duchess of Bedford. 



a herd of as many as fifteen young bulls together. In their turn the 

 younger bulls drive out the old ones, which are frequently met with entirely 

 by themselves. I have put down Lake Naivasha as the most southern 

 point of the range of this antelope, and am under the impression that 

 C. ellipsiprymnus is not found inland north of the Athi River, a distance 

 of only 60 miles, although it ranges much farther north nearer the coast. 

 Even the most casual observer will be able to distinguish them at a glance 

 by the white markings on the stern, the waterbuck under discussion having 

 a large white patch, whilst its near relation, as its scientific name implies, 



