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hunted, flying from tree to tree, and never ceasing their 
harsh chatter. Several times we followed birds, which 
in each case led us to bee-trees, and then perched 
quietly by until the gun-bearers and porters (Gouvimali 
shone on such occasions) got out the honey, which we 
found excellent eating, by the way. 
Our camp here was in a beautiful country, and game 
—for the most part Uganda kob and singsing water- 
buck—often fed in sight of the tents. The kob is a 
small short-haired waterbuck, with slightly different 
horns. It is a chunky antelope, with a golden red coat. 
I weighed one old buck which I shot, and it tipped 
the beam at two hundred and twenty pounds. Kermit 
killed a bigger one, weighing two hundred and forty 
pounds, but its horns were poorer. In their habits the 
kob somewhat resemble impalla, the does being found 
in bands of twenty or thirty with a single master buck; 
and they sometimes make great impal la-like bounds. 
They fed, at all hours of the day, in the flats near the 
river and along the edges of the swamps, and were not 
very wary. They never tried to hide, and were always 
easily seen—in utter contrast to the close-lying, skulk¬ 
ing, bohor reedbuck, which lay like a rabbit in the long 
grass or reeds. The kob, on the contrary, were always 
anxious themselves to see round about, and, like water- 
buck and hartebeest, frequently used the ant-heaps as 
lookout stations. It was a pretty sight to see a herd 
of the bright red creatures clustered on a big ant-hill, 
all the necks outstretched and all the ears thrown for¬ 
ward. The females are hornless. By the middle of 
November we noticed an occasional new-born calf. 
The handsome, shaggy-coated, singsing waterbuck 
had much the same habits as the kob. Like the kob, 
they fed at all hours of the day ; but they were more 
