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sit up in a pretty begging attitude to look around and listen, and 

 finally it scampers off into the bush. 



Emin's striped-squirrel {Funisciurus boehmi) is very common 

 at Fajao in Unyoro. It is a small green animal, with three 

 horizontal black stripes along the body from the neck to the 

 tail. Where the trees were close together, I have seen it jump 

 from tree to tree ; but if the branches happened to be rather 

 far apart, it ran down the trunk of the tree as easily as if it 

 were on level ground, and hurrving on to the next tree, it ran 

 up with equal ease and rapidity, however vertical and high the 

 tree might be. 



The ochre-footed scrub-squirrel {Funisciurus genand) is pretty 

 often met with, rustling in the foliage of the shrubs and bushes 

 along the caravan road between Kinani and Kibwezi in British 

 East Africa. 



The bats were captured with the butterfly net, some in the 

 open air on bright moonlight nights, some in my hut, and some 

 in banana plantations. 



The musk-shrews were caught with a steel-trap in my hut. 

 Other troublesome visitors the steel-trap has rid me of, viz., the 

 Mus hildebrandti,\he. Mus gentilis, and the Mus UgandiC. 



The harsh-furred field-mouse {LopJiuroniys fiavopunctatus) was 

 caught with the hand in a field of sweet-potatoes at Masindi in 

 Unyoro. The LopJiuromys ansorgei and the Tachyoryctis splejidens 

 were collected in clearing the jungle, where formerly had stood 

 a Kavirondo village. 



The tree-rat was caught with the hand, when a tall forest tree 

 was felled at Fajao. This rat has a reddish patch near the nose, 

 and a similar mark near the root of the tail. 



The two species of small grass-mice differ in colour. The 

 reddish one I got from a bird's nest hanging from a bush ; the 

 young of this species, however, are dark grey, for I saw four 

 such in a nest cleverly constructed between the bananas of a 

 green banana-bunch. 



The striped field-rat {Ai-vicanthus pulchdld) is a pretty animal 

 with its zebra markings. It is very common in the sweet-potato 

 fields at Masindi in Unyoro. I once came across three young 

 ones in a nest built in the fork of a small tree. The tiny size of 

 the markings gave them the appearance of having spots instead 

 of stripes. 



The curious Heterocephalus glaber, or hairless rodent mole, I 



