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Athi River (Mto wa maboko = the Hippo River). In this a few are found even in the small 

 swamps near its source, but the animals are very small. 



In the Olbolossat Swamp. Lake Victoria. 



Lakes Naivasha and Nakuru. Victoria Nile and Bahr al Gebel — very numerous. 



Lake Rudolf. Kafu River (Uganda). 



HUNTING-DOG. 



Native Names. 



Swahili Mbwa wa Mwitu. Kavirondo Sudthi. 



Kibondei Mbwizi. jy, • C 0-suyai 



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01-o-ibor-kidongoi (=of the white tail). 



Packs of hunting-dogs soon appear to clear the game out of any locality, and so they do not 

 ever remain long in any given spot. They prefer the bush to the plains ; possibly the scent is 

 better there and the game animals not so swift. Game seem to fear them very much more than 

 they do either lions or leopards. Recently a pack appeared in the Lamu Archipelago and visited 

 many of the islands, clearing out all the game. I believe both the dogs and game must have 

 swum short distances to reach or leave some of the islands, although the water is shallow between 

 most of the islands at low tide. 



Most people who have met with these animals have been convinced that they needed but little 

 provocation to attack a man, but I have never actually heard of a case where they have done any 

 damage to a human being. I have always been singularly unlucky in finding these animals, and 

 so can speak of them with but little personal knowledge. 



HY^NA, SPOTTED. 



Native Names. 



Swahili Fisi. Masai 01-ngojine. 



Kikuyu Hiti. Somali Woraba. 



Kinyamwezi Fisi. Ogiek (Ravine) Kimugugu. 



Kitaita Mbisi. Ogieg Aveyet. 



Kamasia Aveyet. 



This animal is extraordinarily numerous on the plains. In some of the precipitous, rocky, 

 bush-clad nullahs which run down into the plains, colonies of them make their homes, and numbers 

 of them may be seen trekking home about sunrise. They lie very close during the daytime, but 

 if anyone passes close to the bush or clump in which they are lying they will generally dash away. 

 They do not seem to frequent the same lying-up places as lions. Some of the caves on the Athi 

 Plains seem to be used exclusively by lions, and others by hyaenas. A hyaena on the move is 

 easy to recognise in the distance by his shambling gait and the way his hindquarters fall away, as 

 if he was wounded and dragging his hindquarters. When he is sitting up it is not so easy to tell 

 his species until he looks towards you, when his dog-like ears will show that he is not a leopard 

 or cheetah, besides which, with the latter, the long waving tail should be looked for. 



Both males and females have well-developed manes, and this, together with other peculiarities 

 of their structure, makes it often difficult to tell to which sex an animal belongs. In fact, with 

 natives it is a common superstition that they are sexless. The animals appear to vary very much 

 in coloration. 



