EAST AFRICAN MAMMALS. 717 



another at Mknlama, but they are very active and vanish from 

 sight amongst the boulders of the kopjes Avhich they frequent. 



The male's stomach contained a lizai'd (JS^. emini), a skink 

 (uMabnia sp.), a chameleon (C. 2^^^">^iiobus), and grasshoppers. 

 There were also some indeterminable nematode pai-asites. Six 

 fleas from the fur were identified as Ctenocejihalus felis. 



Hehpestes (Calogale) gracilis ibEjE Wroughton. 



A female was collected at Ngong Forest, Nairobi, 2. x, 20. 



Herpestes ichneumon ruNEstus (Osg.). 



Four from Kilosa. Two were pvxrchased from natives who had 

 killed them in their fowl-houses. A skin was also seen at 

 Mkalania. 



One male (532. 532. 100. 37 mm.) was very lean, but its fur 

 Avas in good condition, some of the l)lack hairs in the terminal 

 tail-tuft were six inches long. There Avas rat's fur in its 

 stomach. 



There were many pai-asites on this one individual. Lice 

 {Ih'ichodectes rammei Stebbe) swarmed in thousands. Of nine- 

 teen ileas captured two were EchidnojJsis gallinaceus and the 

 remainder Ctenocephaliis felis. Nematodes from the liver and 

 intestines Avere Fliysaloptera sp. indet. 



Atilax paludinosus rubescens Holl. 



Karasa in Kikami. 



Six specimens of the Water-Mungoose from liagilo, Tindiga, 

 and Kilosa. 



The largest male measured 530. 350. 105. 35 mm. Largest 

 female 530. 330. 100. 31 mm. 



The latter, taken at Tindiga, held two fcotuses measuring 104. 

 52. 21. 5 mm., and both together weighed 3 oz. (27. viii. 21). 



One was shot at 8 p.m. in bright moonlight as it approached a 

 dead monkey I had left on the path, a second appeared shortly 

 iifterwards. 



One specimen sAvarmed Avitli lice [Trichodectes acuiirostris 

 Stebbe, T. vnonrjos »Stcbbe, 2\ 1 rammei Stebbe), a tick (lihijn- 

 cejihalus sim^is Koch), and had filarid Avorms beneath the skin. 

 In the stomach of another Avas an ascarid (Clveoascaris sjnnicollis, 

 gen. et sp. n. Baylis). 



IcnsTEUMiA albicauda ibeaxa Thos. 



Kanhanga in Kikami, Mbaku in Kisagara. 



Six specimens of the White-tailed Mungoose ivom Tindiga, 

 Ilonga, Kilosa, and Naii-obi. 



The lai'gest female measured 600. 455. 132. 38 mm. An im- 

 mature female (440. 350. 100. 38 mm.) Avas disturbed in the 

 burning of rubbish and run down by a native, from Avhom I 



