VI KAMPALA (MENGO) 71 
iinrickslia. The districts around the bases of the hills 
of Kampala are occupied with plantations, and the 
residences of the white officials are surrounded with 
ample gardens, or compounds, filled wirh tropical trees, 
flowers, and fruits. In walking among these gardens I 
started a female bushbuck eating cabbages in the 
kitchen garden ; in another two crowned cranes were 
performing the dance for which they are so celebrated ; 
I also started a heron, and in the verandah there was a 
pretty serval cat chained up by the collar like a dog, 
quite tame, eager and willing to receive caresses. Our 
hostess, Mrs. Baker, had a young genet as a pet, and a 
chameleon. Genet kittens are very pretty and great 
favourites with men and women. While we amused 
ourselves in catching flies for the chameleon an inter¬ 
esting question arose concerning its mode of reproduc¬ 
tion. I maintained that the chameleon laid eggs, and 
was immediately faced with the following statement:— 
A lady friend made her a present of a chameleon, which 
was at once placed on the wire-work blind in the lower 
half of the window ; an hour later, three young, clay- 
coloured chameleons were clinging to the wire blind 
and there were no signs of eggs or shells. There is no 
real difficulty, for one species (7. pumilus is viviparous, 
and this proved to be the species under discussion. It 
is noteworthy that the young chameleons were active 
very quickly after birth, and one of them caught a fly 
within the first three hours. 
We often amused ourselves with finding chameleons 
and attempting to photograph the tongue when ejected 
at a hy. The protrusion of this long elastic organ is a 
deliberate and, on the whole, a slow action. When the 
process is watched it is easy to see when a chameleon 
intends to secure a fly ; whilst it is carefully focussing 
the insect, its cheeks swell out and the end of the tongue 
protrudes slightly from the mouth and is then quickly 
ejected at the fly, and, if the insect be secured, the 
tongue is quickly and easily drawm back into the mouth. 
