1885.] MAMMALS FROM KILIMA-NJARO. 221 



9. Vesperugo NANUS, Pctcrs. 



a. Moshi, 5000 feet, September 12. 

 Found hanging to a tree in the daytime. 



10. Hyrax BRUCEi, Gray (?). 



a, b. (S and $ , 10,000 feet, on the south side of the mountain, 

 26th October. 



Native name in Bantu — Ki-biru (plural Shi-biru). 



Fairly common in the mountain-forests, where they live entirely 

 in the trees, and not among the rocks. They do not descend below 

 about 7000 feet and range up to 11,000 feet. These two specimens 

 were brought alive to Mr. Johnston ; but the female, after giving 

 birth to three young, died almost at once, and the male, refusing to 

 eat, also died in three or four days. 



The specimens agree exactly, so far as can be made out from 

 skins only, with the type of Gray's H. irrorata (Ann. Mag. N. H. 

 1869, p. 242), a species, however, which Mr. Blanford (Geol. Zool. 

 Abyss, p. 252, 1870) has shown to be probably noc specifically 

 separable from the same author's H. brucei, Mr. Blanford obtained 

 his Abyssinian Conies at elevations varying from 2000 to 8000 feet, 

 and it was only to be expected that specimens inhabiting a locality 

 so much further south as Kilima-njaro should have been found ranging 

 as high as 1 1,000 feet above the sea. 



[11.] Elephas africanus, L. 



Mr. Johnston states that he himself saw and shot at Elephants 

 at an altitude of no less than 13,000 feet. 



12. Ehinoceros bicornis, L. 



a, b, c. Horns ; Taveita, 2300 feet, end of October. 



Very common on the elevated plains at the base of Kilima-njaro, 

 but not ascending the mountain itself. Is not found in the true 

 forest, but only in the bush. 



These horns were brought in to Mr. Johnston by the A-kamba 

 people, who obtain them by killing; the animals with poisoned 

 arrows. 



13. Equus burchellt. Gray. 



a. Taveita, 2300 feet, 25th August. 



Very common, in herds of about 20, on the open plains round the 

 mountain, never ascending above about 2400 feet. 



This specimen, like all those I have seen or heard of from localities 

 on or north of the Zambesi, belongs to the so-called Equus chap- 

 mani, Layard \ in which the dark stripes extend on the limbs right 

 down to the hoof. 



That this form, however, cannot be distinguished specifically from 

 the true E. burchelli is sufficiently proved by the following sentence, 

 extracted from Mr. T. E. Buckley's useful paper on the distribution 



1 P. Z. S. 1865, p. 417. 



