ART. 17 EAST AFRICAIT VERTEBRATES LOVERIDGE 5 



fearless of snakes than most, while a cult of their tribe, called the 

 Wayeye, are professional performers with those reptiles of whose attri- 

 butes and habits they possess a strange mixture of ignorance and 

 knowledge. 



The Wakami, with headquarters at Morogoro, or rather in the 

 'mountains behind, are a sturdy hill people, cultivating a great deal 

 of maize and eating little meat. The only reason for including 

 their native names for some of the animals was because three Wakami 

 were with the expedition, and the opportunity appeared good to record 

 what they called the animals. 



A few Kiswahili names are added; the Waswahili, being a town- 

 dwelling coastal people, do not live very near to nature, and it is only 

 one Swahili here and there that is a reliable informant. Even then 

 the names they apply to most of the smaller creatures are generic 

 rather than specific; they have not, for example, a different name for 

 each species of rat — two or three do duty for all. 



Though I have appended the Chigogo names for reptiles, they are 

 of doubtful value without further checking, as species are apt to be 

 confused. They were furnished by a committee of 12 or more old 

 Wagogo men. 



These notes do not purport to deal with the whole collection, being 

 mainly concerned with those animals taken in Dodoma district or 

 which were under my charge at Dodoma for a considerable time. 



The only new vertebrates secured have been described elsewhere.^ 



Measurements, where skins were preserved, are by my native col- 

 lector Ramazan. They are given in the following order: Length of 

 head and body; tail without terminal hairs; hind foot without claws 

 but with hoof; ears. 



Besides the parasites mentioned under their respective hosts, two 

 hippoboscid flies (Hippohosca equina) were taken on native keepers 

 at Dodoma at different times, and another Ornitheza metallica Schiner 

 on a weaver bird (species not determined) collected at Dodoma, Au- 

 gust 4, 1926. 



My grateful thanks are due to the following specialists for identi- 

 fying material submitted to them and mentioned in these pages: 

 Gerrit S. Miller, jr., such mammals as are marked with an asterisk; 

 Dr. Charles W. Richmond, such birds as are marked with an asterisk; 

 Dr. H. E. Ewing, parasitic fleas; Dr. E. A. Chapin, parasitic ticks; 

 Dr. J. H. Sandground, parasitic worms; Dr. J. M. Aldrich, parasitic 

 flies; and Dr. H. Friedmann, for revising and bringing up to date 

 some of the nom.enclature of aves. Also Mr. A.V. Hartnoll, the district 

 administrative officer at Dodoma, for supplying me with the altitudes 



'Miller, 1927, A new Pedetes from Tanganyika Territory, Proc. Bio. Soc, Wash., vol. 40, pp. 113-114t 

 and Loveridge, 1928, Description of a new species of gecko from Tanganyika Territory., Proc. U. S« 

 Nat. Mus. vol. 72, art. 24, pp. 1-2. 



