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hardly let him go out of its sight. ‘‘ It used to sit on a chair at 
the dinner-table and drink its soup with a spoon in the most 
ludicrously grown-up manner.” Chimpanzees go far up the 
mountains in search of food, and traces of them were found on 
Ruwenzori at a height of nearly ten thousand feet, where they 
had been feeding on the berries of a podocarpus. 
Dr. Wollaston is of opinion that the Okapi is probably more 
plentiful, or less scarce, in the Semliki and Ituri forests than 
elsewhere. The Pygmies, who can climb trees like a Squirrel, 
and can pass through the thickest jungle without disturbing a 
iwig, shoot these animals occasionally with spears or arrows, 
and sometimes catch them in traps, ‘‘and it is through them 
_that most of the Okapis now in Europe have been obtained.” 
Lions are not absent from the east side of Ruwenzori. ‘On 
one occasion a party of Lions elected to spend a ‘ week-end’ 
pig-hunting in the valley. Between Saturday and Monday they 
killed four wild pigs within half a mile of the camp, and, accord- 
ing to those who were there at the time, the shrieking of the 
unhappy victims was most terrible to near.” In Africa certain 
birds always remind us of home, and at Lake Naivasha Dr. 
Wollaston’s party disturbed a pair of Greenshanks, ‘‘ which 
whistled as they went away, and reminded me of many happy 
days spent searching for their nests in Sutherland.” 
How to Attract and Protect Wild Birds. By Martin Hirsemann. 
Translated by Emma S. Bucnuem. Witherby & Co. 
Tu1s is an excellent brochure on a fascinating subject, and 
one of no inconsiderable importance to the horticulturist and 
forester. The author was commissioned to give a clear account 
of the principles and of the measures which Baron von Berlepsch 
has advocated and successfully carried out on his estate at 
Seebach, in the district of Langensalza, in Thuringia, and no 
reader of his pages will deny that he has ably fulfilled his task. 
It is now a decade since Mr. Masefield gave us his small book 
on ‘‘ Wild Bird Protection and Nesting-boxes,” and those who 
possess it should place Martin Hiesemann’s publication by its 
side. 
