730 MH. A. LOVEKIUOIO; NOTES ON 



This was the second leopni'd in a hut at Kilosa during the 

 week, for a native awaking to hear sonietliing moving about in 

 liis hut, jumped up and got a cuff from a leopard as it made oli". 

 It had doubtless entered in searcli of fowls. Two days later, on 

 the same Otto Estate, another man heard something in a bush 

 near his hut, and calling some friends began poking about, with 

 the result that a leopard sprang on him, claAved hisshouldeis and 

 breast quite unpleasantly, and made off as suddenly as it nrrived. 

 I imagine that the man anticipated a bush buck and surrovnided 

 the bush with his friends, so that the leopard acted in self-defence 

 and the man got more than he bargained for. 



Unless cornered, or wounded, it is unusual for Tanganyika 

 leopard.^ to molest people. When at Mdjengo's (7.x. 22), the 

 jundjo came to me and said that a leopard, which hatl been 

 cari-ying oil' a lot of fowls of late, had the night before sprung 

 on a sleeping cliild just inside the door of a hut. The animal 

 tlropped the youngster almost immediately an outcry was raised ; 

 it seems possible iie mistook it for a goat, though I heurd of 

 another well-authenticated case wliere the family v/ero sleeping 

 outside the hut on accoimt of mosquitoes, and a leopard carried 

 off and ate a child. In both instances, the leopards were killed 

 by Game Department '.rrappers. At Kisanga, in Kilosa iJistrict 

 (ii, 22), I heard of a woman who was working in the fields being 

 sprung on by a leopard and so badly mauled that she died shortly 

 afterwards: the leopard was killed by a man who came to her 

 rescue. 



Parasites taken from the one young leopard included a fly 

 (Ilipjwbosca cajjensis v. Olf.), fleas {Ctenoceplialas felis), two 

 species of ticks (Ilremaj^hysalis leachi and lihijncephalus simus 

 Koch), and worms {Fhysaloptera p7-ce2niiudis v. Linst.). The 

 second leopard had nematodes {Onchocerca sp. females) in its 

 neck. 



Felis capensis iiindei Wrought. 



Kizongoduma in I'^ikami and Kipogoro, Kijongo in Kisagara 

 and Kiswahili, Nzuli in Ohigogo, and Nduri in Kiramba. 



Four specimens examined from Tindiga, Kilosa, and Sagayo. 

 The largest male measured UOO. 3G0. 158. 80 mm., and female 

 670. 260. 170. 77 mm. 



At Kilosa on 12, vii. 21 some natives cutting grass disturbed a 

 serval, which bolted up a tree leaviiig a large kitten at the foot 

 of the tree. Tliis was brought to me and commenced to take 

 milk at once, first from a spoon, and then going to a saucer of 

 its own accord. It spat and clawed a good deid Avhen approached, 

 but seeing that it had been dragged along with a cord round its 

 neck, it is not to be wondered at. A month later, however, it 

 was still implacable, rolling on its back clawing, spitting and 

 biting, so [ chloroformed it. 



One male was trap-shot through the spine with "22 when 



