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and is no real test of the merits of a head. Thus I saw 
a head shot in 1910 by Lord Wodehouse, which 
officially measured 44 inches, but which was 13 inches 
longer than a 50-inch head shot about the same time 
had the two heads been measured in the same way 
that antelopes’ or goats’ horns are measured. The 
sportsman may be well satisfied with anything over 
40 inches provided that they give evidence of belonging 
to an old bull. To my mind there is no grander 
trophy, and the old Adam dies so hard that I venture 
to think that it must be some time yet before the 
sentimental ideal is realised and we return as happy 
with a mere photo obtained by the most skilful of stalks 
as with the actual trophy. 
Buffalo are common in the following localities : 
all thick bush along the coast in the neighbourhood 
of water, the Tana, the South Guaso Nyero and Lake 
Natron—here they exist in thousands but the general 
average of heads is not very high, the Mau forest and 
the Ithanga hills—which two places probably hold the 
best heads of any, Lake Marsabit, the N’Gong hills, 
the Aberdare mountains, and North Guaso Nyero 
river. But these by no means exhaust the localities 
where the animal may be found. 
Most of its haunts are such that it inflicts little if 
any damage on the settler. There is one charge, 
however, under which the buffalo is a suspected person. 
He is vehemently accused, and as vehemently defended, 
of the charge of bringing and being responsible for the 
presence of the tsetse-fly (Glossina longipennis or 
Glossina 7 norsitans) so fatal to cattle or horses. It 
has further been definitely proved within the last few 
months that Glossina morsitans is capableof transmitting 
sleeping sickness. Since enthusiasts on both sides wax 
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