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Girafta camelopardalis tippelskirchi . . . Masailand Giraffe 



Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi . . . Five-horned Giraffe 



Elephas africanus peeli . . . . . . British East African Elephant 



FER.E CARNIVORES 



Felis leo massaica East African Lion 



Felis pardus suahelica East African Leopard 



Felis capensis hindei East African Serval Cat 



Cynalurus jubatus guttatus African Cheetah 



The following is a partial list of those species obtained by Heller 

 concerning which he (and occasionally I) could make observations as 

 to their life histories. In the comparisons with or allusions to our Amer- 

 ican species there is, I need hardly say, no implication of kinship; the 

 differences are generally fundamental, and I speak of the American 

 animals only for the purpose of securing a familiar standard of compari- 

 son. The central African fauna is of course much more nearly allied to 

 that of Europe than to that of North America, and were I familiar with 

 small European mammals, I should use them, rather than the American, 

 for purposes of illustration. 



Heliosciurus kenice (Kenia Forest Squirrel). Mount Kenia, B. E. A. Heller shot 

 one in a tree in the heavy forest by our first elephant camp. In size and ac- 

 tions like our gray squirrel. Shy. 



Paraxerus jacksoni. Shot at same camp; common at Nairobi and Kijabe, B. E. A. 

 A little smaller than our red squirrel; much less noisy and less vivacious in 

 action. Tamer than the larger squirrel, but much shyer than our red squirrel or 

 chickaree. Kept among the bushes and lower limbs of the trees. Local in 

 distribution; found in pairs or small families. 



Graphiurus parvus (Pygmy Dormouse). Everywhere in B. E. A. in the forest; 

 arboreal, often descending to the ground at night, for they are strictly nocturnal. 

 Found in the woods fringing the rivers in the Sotik and on the Athi Plains, but 

 most common in the juniper forests of the higher levels. Spend the daytime 

 in crevices and hollows in the big trees. Build round, ball-like nests of bark fibre 

 and woolly or cottony vegetable fibre. One of them placed in a hollow, four 

 inches across, in a stump, the entrance being five feet above the ground. Caught 

 in traps baited with walnuts or peanuts. 



Tatera pothce Heller (n. s.) (Athi Gerbille). Common on the Athi Plains, in open 

 ground at the foot of the hills. Live in short grass, not bush. Nocturnal. 

 Live in burrows, each burrow often possessing several entrances, and sometimes 

 several burrows, all inhabited by same animal, not communicating. 



Tatera varia Heller (n. s.) (Sotik Gerbille). A large form, seemingly new. Lives 

 in the open plains, among the grass; not among bushes, nor at foot of hills. 

 Lives in burrows, one animal apparently having several, each burrow with a 

 little mound at the entrance. Nocturnal. In aspect and habits bears much 

 resemblance to our totally different kangaroo rats. 



