714 MR. A. lovkridge: notes on 



On offering tlie body of a skinned genet to my young civets 

 tliey approached it gingerly, and then tlie male llung himself, 

 throat foremost, on the carcass, rubbing his throat, chest, and 

 shouldei^s in the entrails in an ecstacy of delight; he was shortly 

 joined b)-^ a female, and the two of them pushed the carcass all 

 about the lloor in their efforts to rub their throats upon it. 



After a month in the house I turned these three civets loose in 

 an empty loom of a roofless German house, and as I was unable 

 to spend much time witli them they grew veiy fierce, though regu- 

 larly and well fed. After four and a half months, theiefore, I 

 chloroformed two of the worst and let the other go. The two 

 chloroformed, which may be assumed to be five months old, 

 measured: Male 520 310. 97.46 mm., weight 5| lbs. Female 

 580. 350. 110. 50 mm., weight OA'er 7 lbs. (the scale only weighed 

 to seven). This male was always rather backward. 



The liberated male had his food placed in the room and returned 

 for it regularly for a fortnight, after which I went away. 1 fre- 

 quently met it on the path in the moonlight, making its way to 

 tlie ho\iso, and it did not ilee but generally withdrew in a shadow 

 and crouched there tnitil I passed. 



Few animals are so rich in parasites : one specimen alone had 

 nine hippohoscid flies [H. capensis v. Olf.), fleas (Ctenocejyhalus 

 felis), ti(!ks (Bhipicepfiahis siiJius Koch), and nematodes [Fihirid, 

 sp., all females, not F. martis Gmel.) were found in its stomach. 

 Ticks and this species of flea were almost invariably present. 

 •^Anotlier flea [Ecli'ulnophaga larina) and tick [IkemapJiysalis leaclii) 

 were found on a iSagayo civet. 



Two instances of civets caught in gin-traps biting off their feet 

 came to my notice, indeed I fovmd what was probably the remains 

 of one of them in a dry watercourse. The skull showed that the 

 animal was very aged, all the molars on the right lami of the 

 mandible were missing and the bone healed over, though it 

 apjieared to have had a bad abscess at one time. 



The bodies of civets killed on one safari were eaten by my 

 Wazigoor and Wabeni porters. 



Genetta dongalana neumaxni Matsch. 



ISTghanu in Ohigogo, Ndele in Kinyaturu, iS'ilele in Kiiambn,' 

 Kanididi in Kinyamwezi. 



Nine specimens of Neumann's Genet were obtained at Kidenge, 

 Itumba (skin seen), Ndogwe, Suna, Singida, Mdjengo's, Mta.li's, 

 and Izikisia. Three of these were trapped with a down-pointing 

 •22 rifle while attempting to get at a fowl used as bait. 



At Singida an adult male (490. 460. 90. 50 mm.) was brought 

 to mo alive with a string round its neck ; though freshly caught 

 it allowed itself to be stroked and was very amenable, ])ossibly it 

 was dazed l)y daylight. When annoyed it raised the fine black 

 dorsal mane on end and bushed out its, ringed tail. 



At Izikisia on IS.xi. 21 two kittens were found in a hole in a 



