Februsry-March, 1910. 
(280) child pazelle. and I shot betn, 8 Mretinommsa hindei, the only one 
besides Mepnderma seen at the stetion, where they live in the buildings. 
A white rhino was shot opposite the station recently with a 41 inch horn. 
Black rhino are rare near the station and are seldom shot. (261) Tamarind 
common at Gondokoro, at Lake wehre the brown beans were pethered by the 
porters. Gakes of the glutinous pulp were comion in the boat. Natives 
used it @8 a cooling drink end also as A pureative. Thorn tree with date- 
like fruit, used by natives for beverage. Wood used largley by steamers 
for fuel. (268) 
Harch 1: Left Mongalla at sunvise and arrived at Sor’at dusk where 
we renained all night. Saw Little bird life or merimals on the Nile. 
sav a single old ¢ elephant abont 300 yards from the bank and a herd of 
defasaa. Country low with a scattered growth of sermb. At one of the wood 
stations I sav a recently killed bu?falo head Which was the same type as 
the one shot *t Rhino camp. A boy captured four Hippedddexus from the wood- 
Arrived @#t Ghaba Shambe at sunset and took on wood. ‘Shot two 
aderm.. Om the way dorn the river sar reny hippo 
éh one point we pew a herd of about 12 clustered 
together on a bank, some wholly out of water. Mone of them alloved us to 
got closer than 100 yards. Saw 3 crocodiles. F.d.0. kept a lookout for 
elephant all the A.M. but saw nothing. Banka very low, the country covered 
nt #rass and no serub of thom trees near the river. 3: 
iLL day through the Passed Hillet tuer at 
form of trees could only be ; 5 few places, most 
of the landscape being heavy fields of papyrus 48 far as the eye could so@s 
A little grass and some flat rushes mde up the mirgin of the narrow pass- 
age through the pepyrus. <A fer anhbatoh bushes were seen in places. Only 
a few hippo seen and no crocodiles. Sirda few, chiefly white bittens 
small black and white Kingfishers and the purple heron and snake bird. 4: 
Arrived at Lake Mo at daylight, Country low but no papyrus beds and instead 
graray avanps and beds of cattalls. At 6 A.M, a herd of 15 Zobus moria 
were ted and ".—%. soon landed and went in pursuit. He shot two males 
from the herd which were quite adult, the horns being 25-29 inches reapect- 
ively. “They were quite dark but lacked the white patahes on the withers. 
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(264) The females were quite bright foxy red. The hoof of these animals were 
quite long and bare behind from the false hoofs to the hoof. “his is 
quite a specialization for swarm life much more so than any other Sobus. 
The herd was quite shy end would not sllow a near approach. No other buck 
were geen, *e returned at 2 P.M. and spent the afternoon shooting at 
Baliniceps which we sav from the deck about 200 to 300 yards away sitting 
solitary and exposed on the swarm prarns. “hey apparently do not inhabit 
reed beds. “hey were not knorn to nutter any sonnd. “he Or. went ashore 
for one finally and shot it as it flew avay. “he only other buck which 
has the pastern bare is the lechwe of 5. Africa which is abont the same 
size ap C, vario but with quite different coloration, 5: Saw a few J 
Sobus meria this morning in long prass. K.R. went after them and shot a 
male which had a large white patch on the withers and the whole nepe was 
niso white. “he age, judsing tro the teeth, was abont the same as the 
bucks shot yesterday. vo other>k were seen and they (266) both showed white 
napes @nd shoulders. In the P.M. some white-eared Cob were seen and 7,R. 
went after them. Ee shot one which proved to be an old 3 C. vaugheni with 
teeth well worn. All the others seen were red. “his one had well hatred 
pasterns whieh were wholly white well abawe the false hoofs and the black 
of the forelegs extended well above the false hoofs. “he blackness of the 
legs has the same extent as 6, cobra niproscapularis but the ears and feet 
are white and the type localit: however is the same &s C, vaneghani. This 
one shot today is north of Mezeras, the northern limit of ¢. vaughant. 
Spend the whole day at the Yehl, e smell tributary of the Ghazal. The whole 
country seems to be covered with & grass with vatches of tall bullrushes 
here and there. A few sicily prpyrus exe found but no beds can /267) be 
seen anywhere. “hr the pavyrzis does not occur along this part of the Nile 
or farther north seems nnacconntable. “he Isnd is chiefly covered by a 
rrowth of small flat-topped red-barked Acacias, some of which vere pre- 
served: This ts Acacia seyel. 6: During the nteht we steamed into the 
Bebr-el-Ghazal proper. In the morning several Bealenicens were seen, one of 
which the Dr. shot. A few defneasa were wlso Been. Capt. Middleton says 
found on the Seraf or farther north then the mouth of 
iagel but extends up the Chazal to Yau. Salva shot some onposite 

