646 BihliograpMcal Notice. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ^^OTICE. 



A Swedish Expedition to Kilimanjaro. 



WissenscJiaflliche Ergehnisseder Schwedischen Zuologischen Expedition 

 nach dem Kilimandjaro, deni Mem und den Unir/ebenden Massai- 

 steppen, Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905-1906, unter Litung von Prof. 

 Dr. Vngve Sjostedt. Band I. Abteilung 1-7, pp. 848, 31 plates ; 

 Band II. Abteilung 8-14, pp. 844, 19 plates; Baud III. Ab- 

 teilung 15-22, pp. 636, 37 plates. Stockholm : Palmqiiist's 

 Aktiebolag, 1910. 



De. Yngvk Sjostedt, of the Stockholm Natural History Museum, 

 after his return from a short zoological excursion in West Africa, 

 was inspired with an intense desire to make a detailed zoological 

 survey of the mightiest African mountain and the surrounding 

 district. A patriotic Swede, Herr Gustaf Palmquist, generously 

 provided all the necessary funds, and in April 1905 Dr. SjiJstedt 

 left Stockholm for Africa, accompanied by his taxidermist. He 

 landed again in Sweden in August 1906 with enormous collections 

 of almost every class of animal ; some idea of the size of the collec- 

 tions is given by the following statistics : — they formed 137 coolie 

 loads, and comprised 59,000 specimens, referable to 4300 species, of 

 which 1400 were new to science. 



The results of a study of these collections are set forth in three 

 large volumes. Each volume is made up of several Abteilungen, 

 most of which again are subdivided into memoirs, which were issued 

 separately in 1907-1910. There are no fewer than eighty-five of 

 these memoirs, contributed by a cosmopolitan array of sixty 

 zoologists. Dr. Sjostedt, besides writing a " Vorwort," is respon- 

 sible for eleven of these memoirs, viz. those dealing with Aves, 

 QCstridae, Odonata, Termites, Orthoptera (5), Crustacea Decapoda, 

 and an interesting account of " myrmecophilous " Acacias. In 

 the " Vorwort " a general account of the faunas of the different 

 areas visited is given. Dr. Sjostedt divides Kilimanjaro into the 

 following zones: — (1) The steppes or prairies, 750-1000 m. : 

 the Masai dwell and herd their cattle in this region, which is, 

 moreover, a perfect paradise for the big-game hunter. (2) The 

 cultivated zone, extending up to 1900 m., inhabited by Bantu 

 negroes, with their plantations of bananas, beans, and millet. 

 (3) The rain-forest, 1900-3000 m. (-1) Mountain plateaux (Berg- 

 ■wiesen), 3000-4400 m. (5) High alpine zone, extending from 

 4400 m. to the summit. JDr. Sjostedt, who claims that he is the 

 first zoologist to reach the snowfields of Kilimanjaro, found at 

 .the border of the snow (5500 m.) a Collemhola living under 

 stones and a Lycosid spider, which he suggests lives on " Winter- 

 miicken," Large collections were also made on the neighbouring 

 Mt. Meru, and the caves at Tanga near the coast were explored. 



Dr. Einar Lonnberg describes the mammals, reptiles, batrachians, 

 and fishes. Only three new species of mammals w^ere obtained — a 

 bat and two hyenas, — but about half a dozen new local races or 



