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Its attitude toward other animals, including dogs, was decidedly 

 friendly ; it endeavoui'ed to make friends with the cat on hoard, ' 

 but she was suspicious. At Dar es Salaam dogs often gathered 

 round it in the hotel yard but appeared to fear it, as they would 

 not approach, but growled and moved away. 



The animal was kept on a leather rein for five months till he 

 found he could gnaw it through, which he did ten times. 1 gave 

 up the contest and allowed him to wander about the ship for a 

 week till, finding his way into the crew's quarters, he dragged 

 some clothes from a bunk along the deck, and seizing on a leather 

 belt carried it off and gnawed it in half. He was then fastened 

 with very light wire-rope, but after forty-eight hours cut through 

 that also. 



Thos mesomelas MCMiLiiANi Heller. 



Mbweha in Kiswahili. It has no name in Ivikami, but is 

 called Ivewe in Kisagara, and Nhyewe in Chigogo. 



Eight specimens, of which three only Avere taken by the 

 writer's collectors, from Mkata Eiver, Gulwe, Suna, (iwao's, 

 Mlewa's, Sagayo. 



The largest male measured 740. 290. 190. 100 mm., and female 

 G80. 295. 150. 102 mm. 



Both of these came from Saga3'-o, and their stomachs were full, 

 of hyrax fur and meat, whilst one had some larger carrion also. 

 The Mlewa specimen had grasshoppers and several large black 

 scorpions (Pandinus cavivianus Poc.) in its stomach. It would 

 be interesting to watch a jackal's method of attacking a scorpion. 

 The Mkata specimen's stomach Avas well filled Avith the fruit of 

 a tree called by the natives " Mkongo." We came to several of 

 the trees, and amongst the abundant fruit lying on the ground 

 was a good deal of spoor of jackal and civet. 



Twelve fleas {G.felis) wero taken from one jackal. 



Lycaon pictus subsp. 



Mbwizi in Kikami and Kisagara, Iminzi in Chigogo. 



The Hunting Dog Avas not collected nor even seen by me, 

 though it is only too common in the Kilosa District, and 

 Avas often heard. Whilst I Avas a\v;\y from home on one 

 occasion a pack of dogs drove a biishbuck right through the loAver 

 part of the house at 6 a.m. Another time they harried a bush- 

 buck past the front of the house at 5 p.m., and Mr. I). W. 

 Bisshopp shot one of the dogs from the verandah, but it Avas not 

 found for three days afterwards, when it Avas too far gone to 

 preserve. At Myombo, some nine miles south of Kilosa, they 

 pulled down a bushbuck almost on the dooi-steps of a settler's 

 house in the middle of the morning, It is intei'esting to note 

 that bushbuck appear to run to a human habitation when pur- 

 sued by their remorseless foes. 



