FIELD NOTES ON VERTEBRATES COLLECTED BY THE 

 SMITHSONIAN - CHRYSLER EAST AFRICAN EXPEDI- 

 TION OF 1926 





By Arthur Loveridge, 



Of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



In 1926 an expedition to secure live animals for the United States 

 National Zoological Park at Washington was made possible through 

 the generosity of Mr. Walter Chrysler. 



Dr. W. M. Mann, the director of the Zoological Park, has already 

 published a report on the trip; ^ the following observations were made 

 by the present writer, who was in charge of the base camp at Dodoma 

 during three and a half of the four months that the expedition was 

 in the field. 



The personnel of the party consisted of Dr. W. M. Mann, leader 

 of the expedition; F. G. Carnochan, zoologist; Stephen Haweis, 

 artist; Charles Charlton, photographer; and the writer. Several 

 local hunters assisted the party in the field for longer or shorter 

 periods, and Mr. Le Mesurier operated the Chrysler car. 



The expedition landed at Dar es Salaam, capital and chief port of 

 entry for Tanganyika Territory (late German East Africa), on 

 Thursday, May 6, and left on the following Monday by train for 

 Dodoma, which had been selected as headquarters. The expedition 

 sailed from Dar es Salaam on September 9. 



Dodoma is situated on the Central Railway almost exactly one- 

 third of the distance between the coast and Lake Tanganyika. It 

 was primarily selected as being a tsetse-free area and therefore a 

 cattle country where milk in abundance could be obtained for the 

 young animals; it is also the center of a region unusually free from 

 stock diseases. Secondly, it fulfilled a necessary condition in not 

 being too far from the coast, and while animals could be brought in 

 on the railway from east or west, an automobile road running north 

 and south permitted our tapping the game areas in those directions 

 also. 



•Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 78. No. 7, pp. 10-21, Apr. 21, 1927. 



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