~SRRECTOR’S OFFICE - NZP & 
eT Oe iORC c/o Barclays Bank 
OG1 2 1909 P.O. Box. 40011 
RECEIVED Nairobi, Kenya 
ee clst October 1969 
Dr, T.H. Reed 
yf 
Director Lp 
National Zoological Park Ay 
Washington D.C, 
Dear Ted: 
Following our cable to you of the 15th October which 
read 
"Latest addition two male Bongo one female Stop 
Letter follows Regards" 
here are the details of the new Bongo which have been tae 
caught. Lo : 
On the 19th September a young full grown male Bongo, 
quite a bit larger than the one we already had, was caught 
in a trap in the vicinity of Kigai. It was a new type trap 
we had designed and has only been operational two months. — 
The animal is very highly strung and in jumping around severely 
bruised his mouth, but this responded to treatment and when 
iI came down from camp a couple of days ago he had put on 
nearly all his condition and his mouth was just about com- 
pletely healed. But he is still very highly strung and has to 
be approached with a great deal of caution. 
On the 22nd September we caught a female bongo way up 
at Kanitia - if you remember nearly the same place where we 
put Nelson's camera - I am sure you will not have forgotten 
that hill we climbed: She settled very quickly and became 
tame but had a swollen hock on her back leg. I treated it as for 
an infection, carried out a full course, but the leg did not : 
respond to drugs and I have since come to the conclusion that 
somehow or other she must have strained it, because it has 
been slowly getting better and she walks on it quite normally. 
This cold only be seen from the inside of the leg but again 
she was doing well when I came down from camp and we have 
already cut a ten ft. track in right to her boma anda I plan 
on taking the box up to start training her to camp tomorrow. 
She is also a young adult animal. 
: On October 7th we caught yet another full erown male 
Bongo - this chap is probably the most spectacular of all of 
them, He is completely adult, with certainly a 36" Spread 
of horns, has a completely white nose, and looks to me as if 
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