EXTRACTS FROM MEMBERS’ NOTE-BOOK 149 
Buffalo 
I noted an incident concerning buffalo last month — when 
I came on a large herd of about 100 near Masaka — which is 
interesting. 
Two big bulls, one a very old beast, were following a short 
distance behind and I hit the old one badly, just as they had 
seen me and were trotting off. They then went away together 
across a small donga up the opposite hill in short grass and 
in full view. The wounded bull was very sick, and as he 
climbed the hill went slower and slower till he stood with his 
head down. The second bull, a fine beast with exceptionally 
massive horns, I then distinctly saw push the old one with 
his head to make him go on. The latter then slowly continued 
to climb the slope till the unwounded one saw me getting 
closer, when he faced round and I had to shoot him. He 
could easily have escaped if he wished to, and practically 
gave his life for the other or for the herd, away from which he 
was undoubtedly trying to lead me. 
Elephants, it is well known, help the old bulls of the herd 
when wounded, but I have never known buffalo to do so before. 
Antelope — I thought buffalo also — usually drive the wounded 
ones away, especially when they attempt to join the herd. 
This fine beast was evidently anxious that the wounded one 
should not follow the herd and so endanger it, for he led the 
way, after my first shot, at right angles to the tracks of the 
big herd they belonged to. 
F. A. Knowles. 
February 9, 1914. 
Young Bikds 
Nestlings I find are not over easy to hand-rear out here, 
probably because one has not over much time to devote to 
them and because one cannot buy special food at the nearest 
bird fancier’s. A short time ago I took some young Barbatulas 
from a nest thinking that they would be easy to rear, but they 
died, probably because they got the wrong sort of fruit and 
perhaps they wanted some insect food. The parent birds 
were the tamest nesting birds I have come across out here, 
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