With Flashlight and Rifle * 



excellent attendant, Ombasha Ramadan, for I was very 

 ill at the time. 



I have established the fact that the striped hyaena is 

 as commonly found as the spotted hyaena in some districts. 

 In these cases the animals were much less rapacious than 

 their spotted cousins. When caught in traps they always 

 tried to hide their heads by pressing them against the earth 

 in a very curious manner, as if playing at being ostriches- 

 very different from the behavi >ur of the spotted hya-na, 

 which snarls and struggles. 



Whilst following the course of the Pangani River, in the 

 Kilimanjaro district, on Meru Mountain, Ngaptuk, Donje- 

 Erok, the Njiri marshes, in the Matiom Mountains, by the 

 Kibaya-Masai, Lake Natron, the Kitumbin, Gilei, and Donje 

 l'Eng-ai volcanoes on Lake Natron, in Ukambani, in the 

 Pare Mountains, and in the districts watered by the Umba 

 River everywhere I have found the striped hyaena, 1 and 

 sometimes twice as often as the spotted hyaena. 



Ubiquitous throughout the desert are the jackals, whose 

 habits are chiefly, but not entirely, nocturnal. 



The beautifully coloured silver-jackal is common every- 

 where ; but I found a second and larger species in the 

 hilly districts (Canis liolnbi}. 



At night time silence reigns over the velt but for 

 the howling of the hya-nas and the plaintive cry of the 

 jackals, which are still on the move in the early morning, 

 hours after the hyaenas have sought their hiding-places. 



1 I had the pleasure of presenting a specimen of my hyiuna to the 

 IJritish Mu.<;eum. 



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