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another view; but though one other fairly big one- and 
three or four small bright-red pigs dashed across the> 
glade, we never again set eyes on the first monster. 
“ At that time I had heard nothing of Hylochoerus , 
the unknown species that is said to inhabit the forests of 
Man and Laikipia, the first intimation of the existence of 
such a creature only reaching me wdien my brother 
rejoined camp a few days later. The natives assert that 
these huge pigs are not seen beyond the mountain 
forests. Possibly the prevailing lack of water—which 
proved our main difficulty in exploring this region— 
explained their being driven to dower ground in search 
thereof.’' 
The drawing of a forest-hog overleaf has been 
prepared by Mr. Caldwell from a female specimen 
recently receiyed from the Mau Plateau at the British 
Museum. Features that strike one are the unusual 
size of the nasal disc; the splayed-out, warthog-like 
tusks; the open tear-duct; and the curious tufts of 
white hairs on the upper-lip. The body is covered 
with long black bristles, but the ears are not tufted as 
in the bush-pigs. 
On the following morning I enjoyed my first sight 
of an oryx, a lone bull moving along the lower slopes; 
but though 1 followed him for hours, far into the stony 
hills, never got within half-a-mile. In case the fact 
may possess scientific interest, I should record meeting 
with a hedgehog during this stalk. I would not have 
noticed it among long grass had it not loudly resented 
my proximity. In size it resembled our British species, 
and its spines were of a uniform brown. Well I knew 
that my duty to zoology involved taking that beast 
along; but, in the midst of a laborious stalk, it was 
impossible to carry that spiky specimen. Cactus and 
barbed thorn are torment enough, without having a 
hedgehog in one’s pocket. The bushy prairies here¬ 
abouts swarmed with a species of short-eared owl, very 
dark in colour, probably Asio capensis; from a patch 
