. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . are known to them by one name, Kuril. The Masai call it Kibbuligoren,and the Wanderobbo, Kipkonoriandet. So far as I have been able to ascertain, it ranges as far south, but nofarther, than Lake Naivasha. Here I have myself seen it several the north it extends as far as Lake Rudolph, and was obtained there byMr. H. Andrew in 1897. To the west {t extends riSht away through The Defassa Sing-Sing 283 Uganda to the Semliki valley in Toro, and to the west side of Lake Albert,where it was shot by Colonel Ternan of the Ugan
. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . are known to them by one name, Kuril. The Masai call it Kibbuligoren,and the Wanderobbo, Kipkonoriandet. So far as I have been able to ascertain, it ranges as far south, but nofarther, than Lake Naivasha. Here I have myself seen it several the north it extends as far as Lake Rudolph, and was obtained there byMr. H. Andrew in 1897. To the west {t extends riSht away through The Defassa Sing-Sing 283 Uganda to the Semliki valley in Toro, and to the west side of Lake Albert,where it was shot by Colonel Ternan of the Uganda Rifles. Excepting inplaces thickly inhabited, such as Kavirondo and Usoga, it is more or lessplentiful throughout the Uganda Protectorate wherever there is a sufficiencyof water. They go about in herds of from four or five—one of whichis nearly always a bull—up to twenty or thirty. In these larger herds thereare generally five or six young bulls, but these are evidently driven off bythe older and stronger ones during the rutting season, as I have often seen. Fig. 28.—Defassa Sing-Sing Antelope (Coius defassa), in the Woburn a photograph by the Duchess of Bedford. a herd of as many as fifteen young bulls together. In their turn theyounger bulls drive out the old ones, which are frequently met with entirelyby themselves. I have put down Lake Naivasha as the most southernpoint of the range of this antelope, and am under the impression thatC. ellipsiprymnus is not found inland north of the Athi River, a distanceof only 60 miles, although it ranges much farther north nearer the the most casual observer will be able to distinguish them at a glanceby the white markings on the stern, the waterbuck under discussion havinga large white patch, whilst its near relation, as its scientific name implies, 284 Great and Small Game of Africa has merely a white elliptical line on each buttock. The defassa sing-sings are also larger and heavier beasts than the
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