WATERBUCKS AND REEDBUCKS 
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the wet meadows, and in the glades among the masses of 
vine-draped trees and bushes. They fed at all hours of the 
day and night. We saw a small party of cows feeding on 
an absolutely treeless stretch of wet meadow at noon. We 
found a herd feeding in the glades among thick clusters of 
trees in mid-forenoon, and another herd in the mid-after¬ 
noon. We also found them grazing by moonlight. 
In the Lado we did not find the waterbuck in the papy¬ 
rus, but out among the thin groves of scantily leaved acacias, 
often many miles away from the Nile or from any water 
save small ponds, in practically the same localities fre¬ 
quented by the Nile hartebeests. Indeed, we often found 
the species together. When alarmed these waterbuck sim¬ 
ply galloped off among the thickets, not heading for the reed 
beds, even if these were near by. In the Uasin Gishu coun¬ 
try also we often found the Jackson hartebeest and the 
waterbuck in the same country, and even in the same herd; 
for the hartebeests occasionally ventured into the fairly 
thick brush, dotted with trees, which came just outside the 
belt of dense timber which fringed the river haunts of the 
waterbuck; while the waterbuck occasionally ventured far 
out on the open, grassy plains, into the ordinary haunts of 
the hartebeest. As a rule, however, the two species kept 
separate, although their habitats overlapped on the edges. 
We once shot a hartebeest bull from the top of an ant heap; 
and a waterbuck cow with her calf continued to lie under 
one of the many surrounding bushes for some minutes. It 
would be quite impossible to say, from our experience, 
which of the two species was the wariest. We found in one 
place, or at one time, the waterbuck shyer than the harte¬ 
beest; and in another place, or at another time, the harte- 
