BANDED MONGOOSE (CROSS-ARCHUS FASCIATUS). 151 



BANDED MONGOOSE (Cross-archus fasciatus). 



Native Names. 



Chinyanja Msulu. Zulu (Ngoni). . . . Luhara. 



Chiyao Lisulu. Chikunda Msulu. 



Food. 

 Eats snakes, mice, ants, and locusts. 



Spoor. 



Something similar to, but smaller than, slender mongoose. 



Habits. 

 Live together in large families in ant hills. 



Will tackle a python and kill it when gorged with food, many of them going for 

 it at once and biting it behind the head. 



They pick the bones clean, and generally carry off the head to their holes. 

 Nocturnal, but occasionally seen out in the daytime. 



Notes. 



