^90 Mit. A. LoVERTDGE: NOTks on 



shot l)abooiis in trees, seen tliem iall, much blooil a1. 1 lie loot of 

 the tree, but no tvail left. 



Two instances of Yellow JJaboons carrying otl" their companions; 

 liave come to my notice. In one case a local resident, Mr. Kostel- 

 lesky, shot a huge baboon that was picked up by a still bigger 

 beast, which started down the hill with it. Mr. Kostellesky 

 raised an outcry which caused Capt. Turnley and his natives to 

 run out of the house, when they met the baboon with its burden, 

 whicli it dropped in fear for its own safety. The wounded 

 animal was too hard hit to be able to move. 



The second case was witnessed by Mi-. D. W. Bisshopp, who 

 shot a female carrying a young one on the Iringa. road. lie 

 called to his natives to run and capture the little one, but a.s 

 they a[)proached another female baboon returned — the i-est of the 

 troo}) were in iUght — menaced the boys at close quarters, seized 

 the young one and made oil" with it. 



Mr. Kenny Dillon, of Kissaki, wrote me of a recent and quite 

 authentic case which occurred in his district in February, 1923, 

 where baboons attacked and killed the infant child of a nati\e 

 woman while she was at work in the fields. 



Their principal and o,lmost only enemy atlvilosais the leopard, 

 which they Avill mob when opportunity oilers. Some notes on 

 this will be found under the heading of F. pardus. 



1 have only once found a Ilea {Ctenocephalas canis) on a baboon, 

 and this was upon a health^' male in his juime who had also a 

 good many mites on his breasts and in their neighbourhood. 

 Another male had a large number of nematodes (Phi/saloplera 

 inordens Leip.) in its alimentary canal. 



Papio neumanxi Matsch. 



Mhumain Chigogo, Pooma in Kinyaturu, Poma in Kiramba. 



Four specimens of this essentially rock -loving baboon Avereshot 

 at Mtali's, Ulugu, Usshora, and Zengeragusu. They were also 

 seen close to Mkalama. They were always associated witn rocky 

 kopjes or outcrops, and at Mtali's a large troop slept on a huge 

 rock at the suunuit of a kopje. 



. The largest male measured 8i]0. 500. 200. 55 mm., iind female 

 700. 390. 190. 50 mm. A native brought a young one, which he 

 had had for two-and-a-half months, into camp at Zengeragxisu. 

 Though kept on a leash it was very tame, and the air of abandon- 

 ment with which it lay back in its owner's arms was truly 

 comical. 



At Mtali's the local medicine man came to me for the dorsal 

 vertebra; of an old male ; these he claimed were a cure for weak- 

 ness and backache when worn on the lumbar region. 



Papiu tksskllatum Elliot. 



Kuku in Kisukuma. 



Five specimens from Sagayo, where these baboons haunt kopje 



