. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 322 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. Um Orug we saw in all a fair number, usually in pairs, with other antelope on the great 'meres.' One herd of fifteen was deemed unusual. I came upon a fine lone bull drinking at a pool of the river an hour before noon. It seemed much astonished, but was not thoroughly alarmed until it got my scent, when with a loud explosive "oof" it bounded away. GlRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS (Linne). Nubian Giraffe. Cervus camelopardalis Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, 1, p.
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 322 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. Um Orug we saw in all a fair number, usually in pairs, with other antelope on the great 'meres.' One herd of fifteen was deemed unusual. I came upon a fine lone bull drinking at a pool of the river an hour before noon. It seemed much astonished, but was not thoroughly alarmed until it got my scent, when with a loud explosive "oof" it bounded away. GlRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS (Linne). Nubian Giraffe. Cervus camelopardalis Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 10, 1758, 1, p. 66. Thanks to governmental protection, Giraffe are still present in small numbers in parts of the Blue Nile Valley and on the upper Dinder. Mr. A. L. Butler of the Game Preservation Department said that they had very noticeably increased of late years. We saw none during our sojourn along the Blue Nile, but discovered old tracks in numbers some miles back from that stream; these were made during the rains when the ground was soft and were still (in January) deeply impressed in the sun-baked soil. The first locality where these tracks were seen was among the gum arabic trees about Gebel Okalma, near El Mesha- rat. A few other tracks were found, some fairly recent, in crossing from the Blue Nile to the Dinder between Abu Tiga and Wad Shara Shara. On the upper Dinder we saw several small herds of Giraffe, usually on or near the open ' meres' or boggy areas overgrown with rank grass. A fine herd of ten was seen near Abiad, and later three others. Shortly below Um Orug we saw a herd of twenty-one and later another of twenty-five and after dark came upon a small herd that took headlong flight through the tall grass. TTieir chief enemy is the lion, and we several times came upon dead Giraffes that had evidently been killed by them. These were usually youngish animals with the epiphyses of the bones still separate. The lions do not eat the tough hide of the Giraffes but leave this care
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