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one evening. The next day, August 28, 1926, this snake laid a single 

 egg measuring 40 mm. in length. 



Mr. Carnochan brought back a fine series of color forms from 

 Shinyanga, including a salmon red, one that I do not recollect having 

 seen before. He also gave me the Kinyamwezi names for these 

 various colored varieties, which they, of course, consider distinct 

 species. 



Brown, " kalilelala " ; brown and olive, '^siana"; brown, and white 

 spotted, "yangulukwe" — in Kikami, "lukukuru"; red, "kobokeyam- 

 ulinga"; and green and black, "gurukezi" — in Kikami, "ngole." 



I showed one of these last to a party of old Wagogo men and they 

 called it " nyarudededi " ; it is doubtful if it occurs in Ugogo. 



APARALLACTUS LUNULATUS (Peters) 

 BIACK-HEADED SNAKE 



A single individual found dead in the road between Manyoni and 

 Mukwese. Sc. 15, V. 156, A. 1, C. 49, L. 7, (3d and 4th enter eye). 

 This record extends the known range of the species much farther east. 

 There is, however, an unrecorded specimen from the Rufigi in the 

 game department collection at Kilosa. 



NAJA HAJE (Linnaeus) 



EGYPTIAN COBRA 



Native names. — Kipara nunga (Kinyamwezi) ; Sakamala (Kikami. 



Six from Simui and two from Ibadakuri, both localities in the 

 Shinyanga subdistrict. I was very much interested in these snakes, as 

 they were the first living Egyptian cobras I had seen in Tanganyika 

 Territory. All were over 6 feet long. They refused to eat food offered 

 during the month they were at Dodoma prior to shipment. 



Gurukezi states that this cobra only occurs in big forest, that they 

 are vicious, and that the Wayeye consider their bite fatal. 



NAJA NIGRICOLLIS Reinhardt 



BLACK-NECKED SPITTING COBRA 



Native names. — Nyamwiro (Chigogo) ; Sweela (Kinyamwezi) ; Kigau 

 (Kikami) . 



For the 5^oung, showing well-defined red and yellow bands on 

 underside of hood, the Wanyimwezi have another name — namely, 

 "kawosia," and the Waswahili "kikanga." 



I gather from a description given me by Mr. Hignell that this 

 snake is occasionally found at Dodoma, though none was seen dur- 

 ing the four months that I was there. At Saranda, however, I got 

 two on successive days and one of these was the biggest cobra I had 

 yet taken; it taped over 6 feet alive and I feel confident would be 

 about 7 feet dead and properly straightened out. 



