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although they are occasionally met with throughout most 
of Uganda. A favorite place for them in Uganda is the 
Budonga forest, east of the Albert Nyanza, where Akeley 
has recently secured specimens for the American Museum 
of Natural History. They are also to be found in the 
Bugoma forest, farther south; in the Semliki Valley, and the 
region about Ruwenzori generally; and the forest area at 
the mouth of the Kagera River, on the west shore of the 
Victoria Nyanza. North of Mount Elgon they occur in 
limited numbers in the forests clothing the slopes of the 
numerous high peaks such as Debasien, Kizima, and Agora. 
They occur also in the grass country near Gondokoro and 
throughout the whole Lado Enclave, or western side of the 
Nile north through the Bahr-el-Ghazal drainage. North¬ 
ward along the White Nile they occasionally occur still as far 
north as Kaka, where they reach the river by way of the 
streams flowing from the Abyssinian highlands. In the 
low but desert portions of British East Africa, which are 
quite uninhabited, the elephants still have considerable 
freedom of movement. The middle and lower Tana Valley 
is occupied by them, as is also the coast strip south of it, at 
least as far as the mouth of the Sabaki River. North of 
the Tana River we find them still in the desert region domi¬ 
nated by the Northern Guaso Nyiro. At the present time 
they seldom or never come to the river, but are found a 
few miles north of it watering at the brackish desert springs 
and feeding on the foliage and twigs of the desert acacias. 
In this region they are found in small family parties north¬ 
ward to Mount Marsabit, Mount Nyiro, and throughout 
the desert generally as far as southern Abyssinia and the 
north end of Lake Rudolf. On the southern border of 
British East Africa a few elephants are still to be found in 
the Kilimanjaro forest. 
The total number of skins and skulls of the Cape ele¬ 
phant examined by us comprise some fifty specimens rep¬ 
resenting the following localities: Mount Kenia, Marsabit 
region, Lake Rudolf, Uasin Gishu Plateau, British East * 
Africa; Lindi, German East Africa; Budonga forest, Albert 
Nyanza, Kisinga, Uganda; Rhino Camp, Wadelai, Lado En¬ 
clave; Fort Manning, Nyasaland; northern Rhodesia; Cape 
Elizabeth, South Africa. The East African and the Uganda 
