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have been the Koodoo, which Mr. Johnston also met with on KiHma- 

 njaro {op. cit., p. 354), and which Mr. Hunter beheves that he 

 recognised (at 9,000 feet) by " the crumbling core of an old horn." 



Another passage in Dr. Meyer's work is of still greater interest 

 as regards the mammals of Kilima-njaro. When climbing the ice- 

 sheet of the Kibo crater from the west, at a height of 20,000 feet the 

 travellers found the dead body of an antelope — one of the small species 

 they had noticed on the pasture-lands below. This was, in all pro- 

 bability, Cephalophis spadix, discovered by Dr. Abbott, to whose 

 labour we must now proceed to refer. 



The American naturalist and explorer, Dr. W. L. Abbott, spent 

 nearly eighteen months on Kilima-njaro and its vicinity in 1888 and 

 i88g, and collected a splendid series of its mammals, which was pre- 

 sented to the U.S. National Museum at Washington. The specimens 

 have been very carefully worked out by Mr. Frederic W. True, 

 Curator of the Department of Mammals of that institution, and we 

 must now devote our attention to his excellent memoir on this 

 subject (i) lately published. 



Mr. True tells us that Dr. Abbott's specimens are " prepared 

 with much care, the skins being almost invariably accompanied by 

 the skulls, and furnished with labels giving the locality and date of 

 capture, sex, and other particulars." Adding to Dr. Abbott's series 

 the names of the species recognised by former observers, Mr. True 

 finds that the mammalian fauna of Kilima-njaro and the surrounding 

 district includes about seventy species. 



The Ouadrumana of Kilima-njaro, according to Mr. True's list, 

 are of four species — three Cevcopitheci (this being one of the most 

 abundant and most characteristic groups of ^Ethiopian Monkeys), 

 and one Colobus — namely, C. cmidatiis — the localised form of C. giieveza 

 already alluded to. To these will have to be added a Baboon 

 [Cynocephalns), of which Mr. Johnston saw numerous examples, and 

 concerning which, I think, he can hardly have been mistaken, 

 although we do not yet know the exact species. 



Of the Lemurs, the only species yet recognised from the mountain 

 is Galago cvassi-caudatus, which Dr. Abbott found " common " in the 

 forests of Taveta ; but the natives state that there are three other 

 kinds of these animals in the same district. One of them may be 

 Galago garnetii, which the Zoological Society has received living from 

 the Zanzibar coast. 



The Carnivora are more numerous in Kilima-njaro. The Lion, 

 Leopard, Serval, and Cheetah are all attributed to this district by 

 Sir John Willoughby and his brother sportsmen, and, no doubt, 

 correctly. The Leopard is stated to be common on the mountain up 

 to six or seven thousand feet in altitude, and to be very arboreal in 

 its habits. The Viverridae are also well represented. Dr. Abbott 

 obtained examples of seven species, among which is the Ratel 

 [Mellivova capensis), said to be " rare upon the mountains," and a Genet 



