NOTES ON THE GORILLA | 623 
NOTES ON THE GORILLA 
By Haroxtp J. Coouipen, JR. 
The Belgian Government very kindly gave permission to the Expedition to 
secure one specimen of a mountain gorilla from the Belgian Congo, and I was re- 
quested to secure this specimen for the collection. The mountain gorilla is known 
to inhabit particularly the region of the volcanoes just north of Lake Kivu. How- 
ever, this territory had been recently made into a reserve, the Pare National 
Albert. The other localities besides the Kivu District in which gorillas were 
known to occur were so remote from the route of the Expedition that to visit 
them would have taken more time than was available. Fortunately the White 
Fathers at several mission stations in the Eastern Belgian Congo confirmed 
native reports of gorillas not far from Katana on Lake Kivu, on the mountain 
slopes to the west of the Lake. 
Through the assistance of a Belgian official a number of forest pygmies were 
secured, and after two weeks’ hunting with a South African hunter, I was 
able to locate several troops of gorillas. Although hunting was made difficult by 
the very dense rain forest at from 7,000 to 9,000 feet altitude, eventually I killed 
the leader of one of the troops of gorillas which proved to be a large adult male, 
and valuable as a museum specimen. Blood smears were made and the animal 
was examined for parasites. Sections of the viscera were preserved as well 
as samples of food and spoor. In the intestines a tapeworm was found which is 
described in the medical section of this Report, page 473. The complete hide and 
skeleton were brought back to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard 
University, where the hide is mounted and on exhibition (No. 454). 
' EXTERNAL MEASUREMENTS OF THE MOUNTAIN GORILLA PROCURED 
FOR THE EXPEDITION 
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