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IN AFRICA 
found all the way down the Nzoia River to Victoria 
Nyanza. 
The cob is a curiously reliable animal. He likes 
one certain place that he is accustomed to, and noth¬ 
ing can drive him away. If you see him there one 
afternoon, you are reasonably certain of coming 
back the next afternoon and seeing him there again. 
Usually they graze in some sheltered meadow along 
the river’s edge, and for recreation, so far as I 
could see, amuse themselves by seing how many can 
get on top of one ant-hill at one time. Some of 
those ant-hills were literally bristling with cobs, one 
male to each five females, and in herds of from 
thirty to fifty. 
In architecture, the cob is nearly three feet high 
at the shoulder, has beautiful, sweeping horns of a 
lyrate shape, has a white patch around each eye, a 
white belly, and a coat of yellow with black on the 
forelegs. There is no handsomer antelope in Africa 
than the Uganda cob, and because it is found in 
such a restricted and remote district is accountable 
for the fact that one seldom sees a cob head in a 
collection of horns. Comparatively few sportsmen 
have killed them, although they are not hard to 
kill if one reaches a district where they are found. 
The extreme beauty of this antelope led us to secure 
a group of them for the Field Museum. 
The reedbuck is another of the smaller antelopes 
that carries a beautiful head, and, like nearly all of 
the antelopes, comes in many varieties, or sub¬ 
species. 
