BUSHBUCKS, KOODOOS, AND ELANDS 453 
of the Gaboon, some distance north of the mouth of the 
Congo River. He gave it the name albo-virgattus , supposing 
it to be new to science. Although it was already named, he 
was the first to describe it fully and give it a definite local¬ 
ity. We owe also to Du Chaillu the name bongo, by which, 
he states, it is known to the natives of the Gaboon. Even 
at the present day the typical race is represented in museums 
by only a half-dozen skins, none of which are female, so 
that direct evidence is still lacking concerning the horned 
character of the female in the West African race. The race 
appears to be very local on the West Coast. Specimens have 
been secured in isolated localities north of the Gaboon on 
the Gold Coast, in Liberia, and in Sierra Leone. The first 
specimen secured in East Africa consisted of a pair of horns 
from the Ravine Station, on the Mau Escarpment, ob¬ 
tained from the native bushmen dwelling in the forest and 
sent by Jackson to the British Museum in 1897. They were 
erroneously identified by Sclater as horns of the nyala, a 
buck not known to occur north of the Zambesi drainage. 
In 1902 Isaac, who was then stationed at Ravine, obtained 
from the natives both skulls and skins, and these enabled 
Thomas to identify the animal positively. Recently sports¬ 
men have made special efforts to obtain specimens, but the 
bongo is so secretive and keen-sensed that very few have 
been successful. Specimens obtained from the ’Ndorobo, 
who catch them occasionally in pits, are not rare, and many 
of these are now in collections. 
Although in company with Lord Delamere and a number 
of ’Ndorobo friends of Delamere’s we hunted several days 
fdr bongo, and followed their fresh trails for hours, the only 
member of our party who saw them was Kermit, who killed 
two, an adult cow and a half-grown one. Mr. George Grey 
(whose own lamentable death by a lion is elsewhere re¬ 
corded) soon afterward killed a bull, which he most kindly 
presented to us, so as to complete the group for the Smith¬ 
sonian. When mounted, the label is to record the fact that 
he is the donor of the bull. 
