720 MR. A. loveiudge: notes on 



Largest male measured 390. 240. 78, 25 mm., and female 395. 

 .280. 82. 20 linn. 



■• Ah Pooma I saw ten of these umngoose sitting ei-ect on a 

 termite lull, intently watching a flock of guinea-fowl which were 

 feeding towards them across the open, the nearest being only 

 twenty feet away. I was able to approach and shoot two 

 mungoose sitting close together, but one fell down the hole. The 

 other I found was a A^ery light sandy, or straw colour, excellently 

 adapted to life in the thorn-bush steppe. On showing it to my 

 collector, he said that this variety was well known and that 

 probably all in the thorn-bush country would be of a similar shade. 

 Unfortunately for this theory, its dead companion was dug out 

 of the hole and was the typical nut-brown sliade, as were all the 

 others subsecjuently seen at close quarters in the thorn-bush 

 steppe. 



Just on the outskirts of Tiiborn, about twenty feet from the 

 iniiinroad along which a noisy stream of natives were passing, 

 eight mungoose were seen sinining themselves in all manner of 

 indolent attitudes about 7 a.m. They took not the slightest 

 notice of my porters, who had dropped their loads, and were 

 moving about within fifty feet of the bold little beasts. 



An amphisbaenid (G. modestus) and two skinks {Lygosoma sp.) 

 were found in the stomach of an Usshora specimen ; a grass- 

 hopper, large carabid, and beetle larvte in another. 



Fleas [Echidnophaga gallinaceus) were taken in the fur of one, 

 whilst screw-worms wei-e found in the viscera of another. The 

 Banded Mungoose is killed by the Wanyaturu for food. 



Proteleid^. 



PnoTELEs CRiSTATUS TEiiMEs Heller. 



I have not been fortunate enough to obtnin a specimen of the 

 Aard-wolf, but the ci'eature being so rare in Tanganyika Terri- 

 tory it seems worth reconling every occurrence. I have only seen 

 two skins, one obtained near Itumbi in JVranyoni ]^istrict, the 

 other, which is in the Came Dept. ]\[useum, was obtained by 

 Mrs. Hillinge at Kiganga on the lluaha, 31. viii. 22, 



It was caught in a lion gin set on a path and was a ftdl-grown 

 male, measuring 30 inches from nose-tip to base of tail, the latter 

 being another 10 inches according to Mrs. Bilhnge's measure- 

 ments. .She estimated the weight as about 20 lbs. 



II Y ^ N I D X.. 

 IIY-EXA IIYJ^XA SCHILLINGS! Matsch. 



Two examples of Bchillings' Striped Ilyaina were obtained at 

 Oulwe and Mtali's. Both were males, of which the larger 

 measured 1190, 290, 200. 153 mm. 



In the stomach of the younger specimen were the remains of a 



