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befallen. He had come across a gigantic pig which 
dwarfed the big wart-hogs (animals we saw daily) into 
comparative insignificance. We had neither of ns at 
that time heard of the existence of the giant forest- 
liog ( Hylochoerus ) recently discovered in these regions, 
and described, from some fragments of skin and bone, 
in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society , 1904, 
KORI BUSTARD. 
Male : weight 251bs., span 8 ft., has head like a bittern. 
p. 193, though I now remembered having hastily glanced 
through these a night or two before sailing. Whether the 
animal seen here was Hylochoerus , or otherwise, remains 
unproven ; but the following is my brother’s narrative— 
“ It was on the Mugitani River that I had my first 
sight of elands. Leaving camp at daybreak, we had 
traversed the scattered forest that covers the bush- 
tangled, boulder-strewn hills above that river, and come 
upon a level plain, a mile across, stretching to the foot¬ 
hills of Laikipia beyond. Upon this plain was a herd of 
