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Luvia frons (Great-eared Bat). Bluish body and yellowish wings ; very long 

 ears. Almost diurnal ; flies well by day ; hangs from the thorn-tree 

 branches in the sunlight, and flies as soon as it sees a man approaching. 

 One young, which remains attached to the mother until it is more than 

 half lier size. 



Petaliu thebaica (Large-eared Nycterine Bat). Caves in the Rift Valley, also 

 in the Sotik, spending the day in the tops of the limestone wells or 

 caverns which contained water. Both sexes occurred together in company 

 with a bat of another genus — Rhinolophns: Fly very close to the ground, 

 only two or three feet above it, and usually among trees and brush, and 

 not in the open, so that it is almost impossible to shoot them. 



lihinolophiis. Found at the Limestone Springs in the Sotik, and in great 

 numbers in a ca\-e at Naivasha, no other bat being found in the cave. 

 Same general habits as the Nycterin. Specimens flew among our tents 

 in the evening. 



Rapio ibeamis. The baboon is common all over the plains, in troops. It 

 digs up lily bulbs, and industriously turns over stones for grubs and 

 insects. Very curious, intelligent, and bestial. 



Cercopitheciis kolbi. Found in company with the Colobus in heavy forest along 

 the Kikuyu escarpment. The sub-species Hindti is found on Kenia. 



Cercopitheciis pi/gcri/Hiritfi johnsoni (Green Monkey). In the yellow thorns of 

 the Sotik and Rift \'alley, and along the northern Guaso Nyero. Leaves 

 and acacia pods in their stomachs. Live in troops of from ten to twenty 

 individually. Exceedingly active and agile. Oiten sit motionless on the 

 very tops of the trees, when they cannot be seen from below. Run well 

 on tlie ground. 



Colobus caudulns (Black and White iMonkey). Heavy mountain forests, 

 Kijabe and Kenia, and on the Aberdares. Only foliage in the stomachs 

 of those shot. Goes in small troops, each seemingly containing both 

 males and females ; not as agile as the other monkeys, and less wary. 

 The natives prize their skins. 



On the Guas Ngishu the small mammals were in general identical with 

 those of the Aberdares and Mount Kenia. 



In LTganda Heller sliot an old male, Cercopithecus uscanius schmidti- 

 a red-backed, red-tailed, \\hite-nosed monkey ; it was alone in a small 

 grove of trees surrounded by elephant grass. In the same grove he shot 

 a squirrel, Paraxerus, very different from the Kenia species. In Uganda 

 there were fewer species of small mammals than in East Africa, in spite 

 of the abundance of vegetation and water. 



In the Lado we found rats, mice, and shrews abundant, but the 

 number of species limited, and for the most part representing wide- 

 spread types. Some of the bats were different from any yet 

 obtained ; the same may be true of the shrews. The small 

 carnivores, and hyaenas also, were very scarce. 



North of Nimule Kermit shot another FurAscmrus, while it was 

 climbing a bamboo. 



At Gondokoro there were many bats in the houses, chiefly 

 Nyctinomiis, the swift-flying, high-Hying, free-tailed bats, with a 

 few leaf-nosed bats, and yellow bats. 



I wish field naturalists would observe the relation of zebras and 

 wild-dogs. Our observations were too limited to be decisive ; but 

 it seemed to us that zebras did not share the fear felt by the other 



