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several narrow bands which appear conspicuous in the cabinet, 
but which harmonise so beautifully in nature that it is almost 
impossible to detect a specimen at rest among dead leaves. 
Neither of these species has yet been bred through, and it 
would be of the highest interest to do so. J. archesia is 
common in some parts of Kikuyu and J. limnoria in Taita, &c. 
Other species of the genus exist in other parts of the country, 
but I have confined my observations to those with which I am 
familiar, and they will perhaps be sufficient to indicate the 
interest of the subject. 
THE DISTRIBUTION OF GAME IN UGANDA 
By F. A. Knowles 
The Game animals of the Uganda Protectorate are prac- 
tically all common to East Africa, with the exception of the 
Cobus thomasii , or Uganda kob, which do not live east of 
Lake Victoria, and a small variety of the tragelaphus known 
as the harnessed antelope. On the other hand, many of those 
of East Africa are not found in Uganda, such as the Grant’s 
and Thomson’s gazelles, the oryx, Coke’s hartebeest and 
wildebeest. 
The distribution varies according to the altitude and 
natural features of the country and the various kinds of grass, 
scrub, &c. best suited to the different species. In some places 
the animals of certain species are curiously detached in small 
herds, which occupy an area of a few square miles, divided 
from their fellows by huge tracts of country — noticeably the 
impala — having, it would appear, been killed off either by 
the natives or by disease in the intermediate spaces, and so 
become isolated. 
Practically half of the province of Buganda and of the 
districts of Toro and Unyoro is covered with what is known as 
elephant grass, where no animals but the elephant and buffalo 
(excepting lion, leopard, and pig) can live. This confines the 
habitat for the antelope and gazelle to considerably less than 
