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composed of any number of such families which have united their forces, 

 and consequently there are many rams in these. But they do not appear 

 to fight when meeting thus, except if the ownership of the harem specially 

 appertaining to each be disputed ; and should the herd break up it is 

 resolved into its component parts again, each patriarch taking charge of 

 his particular wives. There are, of course, many vanquished bachelors, 

 who, as is the custom of most animals under such circumstances, associate 

 together in male herds. 



Mr. T. E. Buckley tells me of an encounter he once witnessed between 

 a wounded ram and another. He says : " One we wounded and were 

 following up, seeing another herd not far off, went up to it, when the 

 master of the herd came out to give battle to the intruder, who, although 

 wounded, fought so well as to keep the sound one sufficiently employed 

 to enable us to run up close to them, and thus secure both. They fought 

 desperately and took no notice of our approach, which, from the nature 

 of the ground, was almost quite open." 



With regard to the range of this species, southward it stretches into 

 German territory ; Ugogo, whence it was first described, being apparently 

 its most southerly extension. In a westerly direction I can give no definite 

 line. It is certainly present all through Masailand and the Suk country 

 (as pointed out by Mr. F. J. Jackson), and is found on parts of the Mau 

 plateau ; but not, so far as I am aware, anywhere in the country round 

 about Lake Victoria Nyanza. In fact the last-named region is unsuited 

 to it, for it is essentially a denizen of deserts and plains, barren hills 

 and valleys, or upland pastures ; the rank grasses and coarse vegetation 

 produced by damp and steamy fertility, such as prevails in the basin of 

 that lake, are not to its taste, nor are the conditions in accord with its 

 habits. I have found it as far north as the north-east corner of Lake 

 Rudolph — from about a fourth to half-way down the east coast granti 

 is particularly numerous — and all the way from the Tana River thither 



