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THE DISTRIBUTION OF GAME IN UGANDA 
Reed buck. 
Oribi. 
Duiker. 
Cobus kob ( Thomasii ), by the lake shores and larger 
rivers. 
Eland, in isolated herds, scarce. 
Impala „ „ 
Jackson’s hartebeest. 
Topi (Damaliscus senegalensis). 
Wart hog. 
Zebra. 
Rhinoceros, by the Nile and in certain parts of the 
Eastern Province, scarce. Giraffe, Ostrich, the 
greater and lesser Kudu and the Roan antelope, 
in the Gondokoro Districts, Nile Province, and 
part of the Eastern Province, but very scarce. 
It is curious that the last named animals, though common to 
British East Africa and the Sudan, do not exist in any other 
part of the intervening country in the Uganda Protectorate. 
Elephant . — Elephants are most plentiful in Unyoro, 
which is a well-watered country with large forests, interspersed 
with large open tracts of ‘ elephant grass,’ affording good cover 
and an inexhaustible food and water supply. 
The largest tuskers are to be found in Unyoro also, which 
country they seem by instinct to have chosen as the safest 
retreat in which they can find secure hiding places where their 
enemy, man, would find it both difficult and dangerous to hunt 
them. In these fastnesses the females rear their young until 
large enough to travel with the herd. 
During the dry season the herds do not wander much, as 
they never like to move far from water, but, when the rains 
commence, they roam from one district to another where 
the conditions of the country suit them. The oldest beasts do 
not appear to migrate often, though occasionally some of the 
old bulls, known to have come from Unyoro, are found in the 
neighbouring provinces. 
The elephants of the Buganda Kingdom Province are 
notably smaller than those from Unyoro. 
