EAST AFRICAN MAMMALS. 715 



tree in open miombo bush country. The hole wns some ten feet 

 from tlie ground. I rather hesitate in referring these kittens to 

 this race as no adults were collected in the locality. 



A rat {li. c. microdon) was found in the stomach of the K'dogwe 

 genet. These genets cause a great deal of mischief among native 

 fowls, which they appear to kill for killing's sake when they can 

 get into a fowl-house. 



Genktta suahelica Matsch. 



Kanu in Kiswahili, Kikami, and Kisagara, Tondolega in 

 Wahehe. 



Thirteen specimens from Mkata Ptiver, lludewa, Kimamba, 

 Kilosa, Mbonoa, and Mdjengo's. 



The largest male measured 500. 440. 89. 45 mm., and best 

 female 525. 435. 87. 48 mm. 



Two very young kittens (6 6- 190. 165. 40. 25 mm.) were 

 brought to me at Kilosa on 7. v. 21, but only lived till 2D. v. 21. 

 Another, only a few days old, on 28. iii. 21, throve for a month, 

 but during my absence from home was allowed into a room where 

 there was a freshly-cured leopard skin on which it went to sleep. 

 It Mfterwards apparently licked the skin, for I found traces of 

 arsenic in its stomach, and it died with all the symptoms of 

 arsenical poisoning on 27. iv. 21. 



It was suffering from constipation when brought to me and on 

 the second day extruded its bowels, which I washed Avith warm 

 water and permanganate, lubricated with vaseline, and returned. 

 I gave it doses of salts at 2 and 6 p.m., and it obviously recovered 

 as it lived for a month after and was always very full of life. 



I first fed it on sweetened milk and jam ; after nine daj's I gave 

 up feeding it, and it lapped milk and it attempted scraps of meat. 

 It very soon gave up spitting when handled, and showed no fear 

 of a mungoose or three young civets, ever so much larger than 

 itself. It spent a great deal of time in sleeping, varied by 

 climbing, at Avhich it was an adept. It clambered up the mosquito 

 gauze to the top of a door and then called to be helped down ; 

 backs of chairs were a very favourite goal, which when reached 

 it would rest upon. 



When sitting up in trees at night it is a common occurrence 

 to hear genets hunting through the grass, pouncing here and 

 there, or clambering into a biish, from whence birds Avould go oft 

 with a twitter or a whirr according to kind. I waited for one 

 such for half-an-hour before it appeared in the road. After one 

 or two short runs it then vanislied, but presently reappeared, and 

 seeing the goat beneath my tree dashed towards it, but on the far 

 side, Avhere it halted for a second to look at the goat, and I shot it 

 dead. 



In its stomach were grasshoppers, a Large black field cricket, 

 and beetle elytra, together with not a little green stuff, mostly 

 errass-blades as far as one could determine. A second individual 



