. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. us red. The belly isblackish, except just under the knees. Thetail is bright chestnut red, with a small blacktuft. The hindquarters, hind and fore legsare either snowy white or pale cream-colour,touched here arid there with orange. Theyare boldly marked, however, with purple-blackstripes and splodges, which give that zebra-like appearance to the limbs of the okapithat caused the first imperfect account of it toindicate the discovery of anew striped horse. The softparts of the animal beingas yet unknown, it cannotbe stated po
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. us red. The belly isblackish, except just under the knees. Thetail is bright chestnut red, with a small blacktuft. The hindquarters, hind and fore legsare either snowy white or pale cream-colour,touched here arid there with orange. Theyare boldly marked, however, with purple-blackstripes and splodges, which give that zebra-like appearance to the limbs of the okapithat caused the first imperfect account of it toindicate the discovery of anew striped horse. The softparts of the animal beingas yet unknown, it cannotbe stated positively that theokapi possesses a prehensiletongue like the giraffe, but itis probably by the lips andtongue that the creaturegathers the leaves on whichit feeds, for according to theaccounts of the natives itlives entirely on foliage andsmall twigs. Like all livingruniments (except the camel)it has no front teeth in theupper jaw. So far as is yet known,!says Sir Harry, the existingrange of the okapi is confined The Uganda Protectorate. tO the northern part of the. HEAD OF THE and side views from the original draby Sir Harry Johnston reproduced i Notes and Comments 37 Congo forest, near the Seniliki River. Theokapi is found in the little territory of Mboga,which is an outlying portion of the UgandaProtectorate. It is also found in the adjoining-province of the Congo Free State. Thissame forest, I believe, conceals other won-ders besides the okapi, not yet broughtto light, including enormous gorillas. Ihave seen photographs of these huge apes,taken from dead animals which have beenkilled by the natives and brought in to theBelgians. A carefiil search might revealseveral other strange additions to the worldsmammalian fauna. Leopold at Brussels. The specimens nowunder examination, together with the livingones, all come from the Mangbettu country,where the okapi is said to exist in largenumbers, and goes about in small herds. In the first number of The Living Animals o
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