With Flashlight and Rifle -^ 



excellent attendant, Ombasha Ramadan, for I was very 

 ill at the time. 



I have established the fact that the striped hysna is 

 as commonly found as the spotted hyaena in some districts. 

 In these cases the animals were much less rapacious than 

 their spotted cousins. When caught in traps they always 

 tried to hide their heads by pressing them against the earth 

 in a very curious manner, as if playing at being ostriches — 

 very different from the behavi )ur of the spotted hyaena, 

 which snarls and struggles. 



Whilst following the course of the Pangani River, in the 

 Kilimanjaro district, on Meru Abiuntain, Ngaptuk, Donje- 

 Erok, the Njiri marshes, in tht^ IMatiom Mountains, by the 

 Kibaya-Masai, Lake Natron, the Kitumljin, Gilei,and Donje 

 TEng-ai volcanoes on Lake Natron, in Ukambani, in the 

 Pare Mountains, and in the districts watered by the Umba 

 River— everywhere I have found the striped hy:ena,^ and 

 sometimes twice as often as the spotted hyiena. 



Ubiquitous throughout the desert are the jackals, whose 

 habits are chiefly, but not entirely, nocturnak 



The beautifully coloured silver-jackal is common every- 

 where ; but I found a second and larger species in the 

 hilly districts {Cci/iis holubi). 



At night time silence reigns over the velt but for 

 the howling of the hycenas and the plaintive cry ot the 

 jackals, which are still on the move in the early morning, 

 hours after the hyaenas have sought their hiding-places. 



1 I had ihe pleasure of piesenting a specimen of my hytena to the 

 British Museum. 



