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because it is evidently something analogous to the preponderant use of the right side 

 of the head in Giraffes as set forth at another place in this memoir, and also to the 

 right-handedness of man. 



In the primeval forest of Kenia Elephants are to be found but whether of the 

 same race or not is uncertain. These forest Elephants may belong to the Aberdare 

 race {E. a. peeli). When passing through the forest region between Embu and Meru 

 we saw tracks of Elephants several times, and on the way back we were so close to 

 them that we heard them break branches etc. At an open place in the forest at an 

 altitude of 2,500 m. the Elephants appeared to have a favourite resort between two 

 small rivulets. There were spoors everywhere and at two different places around 

 some water holes the probably alkaline earth had evidently been dug up by the 

 Elephants with their tusks as the marks plainly showed. Close above this place rose 

 a hill so steep that it was connected with difficulty for a man to ascend it, but the 

 numerous Elephant tracks proved that these animals often passed up and down there. 

 The »3teps» in these tracks were often 80 to 100 cm. high above the next. 



The Elephants ascend on Kenia to, and even above the bamboo region as the 

 spoors indicate. At an altitude of 2,700 m. where the temperature at sunrise only 

 was + 1° C. the Elephant spoors were numerous. These animals are thus not so 

 susceptible to a low temperature as is generally believed. But when the rainy season 

 sets in, I was told, that the Elephants descend to the shambas in the cultivated 

 region. »They do not like the dripping from the trees.* 



In the Kenia forest I saw in several places the ingeniously arranged pitfalls in 

 which the Wandorobbos catch Elephants. They were dug in the paths of the animals 

 and often with great cunning, between two big trees, in a curve of the path etc. to 

 make it more difficult for the Elephants to avoid them. They were deep but so 

 narrow that if an Elephant fell into such a pitfall he should be jammed in by his 

 great weight so tightly between the walls that he could not move, and thus not be 

 able to work his way out again. 



Perissodactyla. 

 RliinocerotidaB. 



Rhinoceros (Diceros) bicornis Lin, 



The Rhinoceroses were formerly common over great parts of British East Africa, 

 biit it is now exterminated, or nearly so, near all settled districts and roads along 

 which there is any regular traffic, or where too often hunting parties are going in 

 search of game. I saw, however, several on the acacia steppe south of Guaso Nyiri, 

 and in the dry thornbush country north of this river they were found to be rather 



