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have been the Koodoo, which Mr. Johnston also met with on Kilima- 
njaro (op. cit., p. 354), and which Mr. Hunter believes 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, Cephalophus 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 
188g, and collected a splendid series of its mammals, which was pre- 
sented tothe 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 (1) 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 Quadrumana of Kilima-njaro, according to Mr. True’s list, 
are of four species—three Cercopithect (this being one of the most 
abundant and most characteristic groups of A‘thiopian Monkeys), 
and one Colobus—namely, C.caudatus—the localised form of C. gueveza 
already alluded to. To these will have to be added a Baboon 
(Cynocephalus), 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 crassi-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 garnetti, which the Zoological Society has received living from 
the Zanzibar coast. 
The Carnivora are more numerousin 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 Viverride are also well represented. Dr. Abbott 
obtained examples of seven species, among which is the Ratel 
(Mellivora capensis), said to be “‘ rare upon the mountains,” anda Genet 
