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■CEPHALOPHUS GRIMMI GRIMMI (Linnaeus) 



COMMON DUIKER 



Native names. — Haluzi (Chigogo); Funo (Kishwahili) . 



I saw half a dozen duiker at Nzingi, Saranda, and in the vicinity 

 of Dodoma. Several young ones were brought into camp at Dodoma 

 during May and June and others from Kondoa Irangi and Shinyanga 

 in August, showing a very extended breeding season, as all were about 

 the same age. An adult female which arrived from Kondoa Irangi 

 during the first week in August was with young. 



I had one of the Dodoma duikers combed for fleas {Ctenocephalus 

 jelis) during June. 



Measurements of male, 1054. 61. 264. 108 mm. (Mukwese). 



MADOQUA KIRKI NYIKAE (Heller) 



THORNBUSH DIKDIK 



Native names. — Mzimba or Chizimba( Chigogo); Paa (KishwahOi). 



The pronunciation of the Chigogo name for this species varies in 

 different sections of the district. Dikdik are extraordinarily common, 

 even quite close to Dodoma, and on my first three walks in the vicinity 

 I put up three dikdik on each occasion. I saw several at Nzingi and 

 Mukwese, where it is not so abundant. At Saranda it is very plentiful. 

 At least a score of newly dropped young were brought in during May, 

 June, and July. None of these lived more than a fortnight, either 

 through the curdling of the cow's milk in their stomachs or through 

 diarrhea. The last received during the first week in August was kept 

 in a cool ill -lighted room and fed on cow's milk diluted with equal 

 parts of water three times a day. It throve, began nibbling grass, and 

 in due course was taken to Dar es Salaam. This little animal always 

 slept with a serval kitten, which, in the daytime, would spring on its 

 back or cling round its neck in an attempt to throw it, making a fine 

 miniature scene o'f a leopard with an antelope. The dikdik stood 

 this treatment quite placidly and showed no fear w^hatever, even going 

 up to rub noses with the serval. The Zanzibar lemur would some- 

 times join the party and seize the serval's big ears or prance around 

 on its own long hind legs in a grotesquely ludicrous fashion. In cap- 

 tivity the dikdiks ate maize flour, mimosa pods, mimosa leaves, and 

 showed considerable fondness for the green tops of potatoes and beans. 

 Most of the native garden plots at Mukwese are guarded by felled 

 hedges, at intervals along these are set well-made deadfall traps pre- 

 sumably for dikdik; at least I can hardly imagine anything much 

 larger venturing through the narrow aperture. 



Fleas {Ctenocephalus canis and Jelis), ticks {Rhipicephalus appen- 

 diculatus) , and worms {Setaria lahiado-papillosa) were collected from 

 Dodoma dikdiks on June 11 and 26, 1926. 



