EAST AFRICAN MAMMALS, 721 



monkey skinned in camp that clay, a, great quantity of mealies, 

 and some wild yellow fruit whicli might have been in the stomach 

 of tlie monkey. There Avere also a lot of vertebrae of a good-sized 

 python and tlie skin of an agama lizard. 



A lli[)[X)boscid fly (//. cajiensis v. Olf.) was in its coat and also 

 two species of ticks. 



Ckocuta crocuta GERMiiVAxs Matsch. 



Three specimens of the Eastern Spotted Hynena Avere collected, 

 others were also examined from the following localities : — Kilosa, 

 Mtali's, Izikisia, Simbo, Shandwa, and Mwadira, 



The Kiswahili name of Fisi seems to be universally employed, 

 in Chigogo it is altered to Mvisi, and in Kisungwa it is called 

 Fifi. 



The largest male measvu-ed 1350. 250. 215. 110 mm., the 

 largest female 1245. 241. 215. 101 mm. 



The latter held a single ftctus very near the birth, weighing 

 3| lbs. and measuring 330. 70. 6*0. 29 mm. 



One which I shot at a waterhole at 1,30 a.m. had come to drink 

 earlier in the evening, and a movement of mine in the hide-up 

 had caused it to bolt. It returned with three zebra at its heels, 

 and tried to get past a flanking zebra Avithout coming too near 

 my hide-up, Avhich it Avas quite aAA^are Avas tenanted. It A\^as in 

 abject terror, trying to crouch past Avith stomach close to tho 

 ground, when I shot it at fifty 3'ards. 



The contents of its stomach and others Avere as follows : — 

 (i.) Goat's skin, hoof and ox bones, broken fragments of a gourd 

 picked up near a native hut presumably, (ii.) Goixt or small 

 buck's hoof, giraffe bones and strips of giraffe skin, pared off by 

 a sandal-raaker, fowl's feet, bits of gourd, (iii.) Ilemains of goat 

 and ox, wild pig, duiker, rat's foot, foAvl's feet, and two haii-y 

 calculi. 



Three fleas from the last-named specimen proved to be Cteno- 

 cephalus felis and Echidnojjhaga larina. Ilippoboscid flies (//. 

 capensis v. Olf.) Avere found on two specimens, also ticks (Bhijn- 

 cephalus simus Koch). 



F E L I D JE. 



AciNONi'x JUBATUS KAiNEYi Heller. 



Duma in Kikami and Chigogo. Pocho (?) in Kisagara (Poclio 

 appears to be applied to the Hunting l^ogand there may be some 

 confusion). The Cheetah is not a common animal in Tanganyika 

 Territory as it is in Kenya so far as my experience goes. The 

 natives are unfamiliar Avith it and few seem to knoAV its name, 

 usually confusing it Avith either the Leopard or the Serval ! 



The only local skin I have see)i was of quite a large animal, 

 Avliich Avas brought for sale by two natiA'es, Avho said they had 

 found it dead near Kideti (viii. 22) ; having been jcilled by a snake. 



