APPENDIX III.— MAMMALS 459 



No. and Sex. Locality. Date. Length. Weight. 



131 9 Shimeiler Jowee 24.4.00 26|.37i 15^ lbs. 



" Also bought at Adua the skin of a serval, killed near there. 

 " Saw one in the hills just behind Adis Ababa, another on Turkogogo 

 plain, and one near Chilgar, but bagged none of them.' 



Cams si/iicttsis (Riipp.). 

 (Native name, " Cuberow.") 



This very interesting animal was described by Riippell in 1835 '■> he 

 and most subsequent observers treating it as a wolf or wild dog. Mr. Oscar 

 Neumann, who has just returned from Abyssinia, most emphatically declares 

 it to be a large fox, and says all its habits, its gait and actions, show it to 

 be only an exaggerated fox. 



Notes. 

 ( Length in straight line 

 -| nosetoroot of tail, 31" 

 (^ to end of tail, 45". 



3. Dungnler. 



Mr. Powell-Cotton remarks as follows : " I first noticed this animal on 

 1 4/3, on the highland just north of the Abbai, in Gojam ; I saw two separately 

 on that day, shooting one. Between this point and Dungoler, and while 

 camped for three weeks at that place, I saw and shot: 19/3, one; 26/3, 

 one; 2/4, three together, and shot another (I fancy a bitch in heat had 

 drawn the dogs to the place) ; 3/4, one ; 7/4, saw two and shot another. I 

 found none in the low, hot country or along the west of Lake Tana, or the 

 high ground round Gondar, or to the west of it. Near Mount Wukkan I 

 saw one; the natives said they were very rare there: I also fired at one near 

 Buiheat, where it was evidently looked upon as a great rarity. Except on 

 the one occasion they were always single, and in the neighbourhood of 

 large colonies of brown rats (?) (hind-quarters light-coloured, and short 

 tails), on which they seemed to chiefly feed. I have watched them standing 

 motionless over the mouth of a burrow waiting for rats to show ; if they 



^ Length of head. 

 Length of head and body. 

 Length of head and body and tail. 



