24 SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 2. 



Felis (Zibethailurus) serval SCHREBER. 

 (PI. I fig. 3) 



Felis serval SCHREBER, MATSCHIE Saugethiere Ost-Afrikas. 



Kilimandjaro: 1 skin (badly damaged by insects) from Ngare nairobi, skinned 

 by the natives. Usambara: 1 skin of a melanistic variety presented by Mr MARTIENSSEN 

 at Mombo. 



A young specimen caught near the mountain was held in captivity for some time. 

 It became, with every day more beautiful but at the same time more ill-tempered and 

 hissed and spitted as soon as anybody came near it. Finally it succeded in escaping 

 (SJOSTEDT). 



Felis ocreita GMELIN aff. 



A specimen of Wild Cat was shoe at Moschi on evening in July when SJOSTEDT 

 visited the officers stationed there. This specimen was presented to him and the skull 

 is preserved, but the skin appears to have been lost and subsequently it cannot be decided 

 which subspecies it represented. 



Rodentia. 



Helioseinrns niuliilatus TRUE. 



Sciurus undulatus TRUE Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XV 1892 p. 465. 

 Kilimandjaro: 2 specimens from the farms at Kibonoto, % 1905 - 1 specimen 

 from the rain forest, 2,000 feet above the sea, Kilimandjaro, 8/ n 1905 1 specimen from 

 the cultivated zone at Kibonoto, Nov. 1905 --2 specimens from the same locality April 

 and May 1906 -- Usambara: 2 specimens from Mombo 2B / 1906. 



The specimens from Mombo are a little lighter with broader white tips to the hairs, 

 but otherwise similar. 



Fuiiisciurus ganana RHOADS. 

 Sciurus ganana RHOADS Proc. Acad. Philadelphia Vol. 48 1896 (1897) p. 522. 



Kilimandjaro: 1 (<$} specimen from Kibonoto June 1905. Length of body 13 

 of tail 16 cm. - - 2 (c??) specimens from the cultivated zone at Kibonoto 2B A> 1905- 

 1 specimen from the same locality Nov. 1905 - 2 specimens from the same locality, 

 May 1906 -- 1 (?) specimen from Moembe, Usambara June 1906. -- Usambara: 2 spe- 

 cimens from Mombo, June 1906. 



If this species (ganana) proves to be identical with PAGENSTECHER'S: Sciitrns 

 cepapi var. aruscensis 1 the latter name has priority. This supposition is mentioned, 

 because some of the specimens (one young from Kibonoto and two specimens probably 

 from Mombo) are much paler on the lower side which may be termed dirty yellowish 

 white. The last mentioned specimens differ, however, from the young one from Kibo- 

 noto in having paler feet, yellowish brown, while those of the latter are rufous. This 



1 Jakrb. Hamburg, wiss. Anst. 1884. 



