. From the Niger to the Nile. Alexander-Gosling Expedition; Birds. NATURAL HISTORY 299 the open there are plains that during the rains become swamps, but in the dry season are covered with long grass. Here, when the natives have burnt the grass off, the buffaloes. GOSLING S RHINOCEKOS dearly love to come in the early morning and feed upon the young shoots that spring up among the blackened stubs ; then when the sun gets up they saunter slowly back to spend the rest of the day in the shady seclusion of the thorn. In this country, too, there is plenty of giraffe, roan antelope and pig. It was a
. From the Niger to the Nile. Alexander-Gosling Expedition; Birds. NATURAL HISTORY 299 the open there are plains that during the rains become swamps, but in the dry season are covered with long grass. Here, when the natives have burnt the grass off, the buffaloes. GOSLING S RHINOCEKOS dearly love to come in the early morning and feed upon the young shoots that spring up among the blackened stubs ; then when the sun gets up they saunter slowly back to spend the rest of the day in the shady seclusion of the thorn. In this country, too, there is plenty of giraffe, roan antelope and pig. It was a fine sight to move a troop of giraffe, perhaps forty or fifty in number, which, at the sound of our approach, would gaze at us as we stood motion- less and then with_ a rattle of hoofs on the hard ground canter off in a cloud of dust to stop again a httle farther off. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Alexander, Boyd, 1873-1910; Talbot, Percy Amaury, 1877-1945. London, E. Arnold
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