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Show 1895.] EXPEDITION TO BEITISH CENTEAL AFEICA. 341 Butanuka, where the grass was about 4 or 5 inches long, and just growing. Passing back over this country in June, when the grass was two feet high and in a dry and withered condition, I saw scarcely any except on places where there had been a fire and young grass was springing up. They probably had gone off to the immediate neighbourhood of the lake. I thought this important, in view of the possibility of cattle-ranching at this point. The Hartebeest, I fancy, is the same which I saw in Buddu and on the Nandi range, probably Jackson's. The Kob (Cobus kob), of which I obtained horns, seems pretty common near the Albert Edward. Another Waterbuck, which may have been the Sing Sing (Cobus unctuosus), is not uncommon. It has the hair and reddish colour of the Sing Sing, but seemed to m e a larger animal and with much larger and broader hoofs than the Sing Sing. Unfortunately, I did not think it worth while to bring home a skin. In the forest on the "Wimi valley, at about 8000 feet, I saw a Bushbuck which I failed to get. This was not the Cephalophus asquatorialis (of which I brought the skin and skull from the Victoria Nyanza), nor could it have been the Abyssinian species. It was a very distinctly reddish or bright bay, very much like Cephalophus natalensis according to the description. There are several species of Monkey about Ruwenzori. One of these is a Colobus, but I have not been able to identify it. It has the long white and black fur of the Colobus guereza, but it is not that species. It might be either C. caudatus of Kilima-njaro, or C. angolensis, but it seems to m e different from the figures of both of them. It is most common in the Veria and Msonje valleys near Butanuka, but I could not get a specimen. It has a very curious weird screaming cry, quite unlike that of any other animal. I brought home a specimen of Cercopithecus pluto or of the allied form C. stuhlmanni. The Wakondja in the Nyamwamba valley, East Ruwenzori, make a sort of pouch or pocket of its skin, which they carry over the shoulder, so that the animal must be common. This Monkey is extremely shy, and usually the only sign of its presence is the noise of a tremendous crash amongst the branches a long distance away. Once I saw very well a troop of another monkey, probably a Cercopithecus also. I was alone, of course without a gun, and sitting down very quietly on a fallen tree. Four or five of the older males came quite close after some hesitation. They had white marks on the face, simulating eyebrows, moustache and imperial, and their expression was melancholy and unhappy. There are also Baboons (Papio, sp. inc.) on the "Wimi River, where they greatly damage the native crops. A kind of Lemur (probably a Galago), a nocturnal creature living in hollow trees, was the only animal I heard of on the west side of the mountain. A. Squirrel (Sciurus rufo-brachiatus) of West-African affinity is common in the "Wini valley. |