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London zoo; in another part is the species known 
as Vaughan’s cob, and in still other parts are the 
dusky cob, the puku cob, the lechwi cob, the black 
lechwi, the Uganda cob and Buff on’s cob. 
It was Lady Constance Stewart-Richardson, the 
remarkable young English woman who is now 
dancing barefooted on the London music stage, 
who killed the record head of this last named species 
in Nigeria. 
The Gregarious Cob 
It is of the Uganda cob only that I am able to 
write about from my own observation and experi¬ 
ence. We found them only in one place, on the 
banks of the Nzoia River near Mount Elgon and 
the Uganda border. They never were more than 
four or five hundred yards from the river and could 
not be driven away. If they were startled at one 
point they would circle around and quickly get 
back to the river at some other point. They seemed 
to become homesick unless they could see the river 
near by. We found them only in a short stretch 
of five or six miles, although they doubtless are 
