THE DISTBIBUTION OF GAME IN UGANDA 19 
half the area of the Protectorate, including the forests and 
thickly populated localities with the country where they do not 
live. 
The Uganda Protectorate may be roughly divided into the 
following zones, each having broadly marked characteristic 
features which have a general bearing on the game distribu- 
tion : — 
(a) Undulating country with rich soil, bearing ‘ elephant 
grass,’ intersected throughout by valleys of papyrus swamps 
and forest scrub. 
(b) Heavy timbered forest. 
(c) Open plains and rolling downs of poor or shallow soil, 
with grass of the short growth variety, and stretches of forest 
scrub and acacia bush. 
The Game may be classified roughly under each as follows : — 
numerous in the forest scrub. 
(a) Elephant, distributed practically throughout, except in 
thickly populated or badly watered regions, the large herds 
generally being found in the neighbourhood of the principal 
rivers. 
Buffalo, ditto. 
Leopard, occasionally. 
Bush pig, numerous everywhere. 
Sitatunga (Speke’s tragelaphus), fairly plentiful in the 
large papyrus swamps. 
Bush buck ) 
Waterbuck ) 
(b) Elephant. 
Buffalo. 
Giant pig (scarce). 
Ntalagania, 1 numerous at low altitudes. 
(c) Elephant, in the rainy season. 
Buffalo, ditto. 
Lion. 
Leopard. 
Waterbuck ( Cobus defassa). 
Bushbuck. 
Harnessed antelope. 
1 Ntalagania is the Luganda name for a small forest duiker. 
