732 Mil. A. loveridge: notes on 



torn. I was called upon to shoot a brother of this black torn at 

 Kilosa, which had been out fighting one night, a.nd came lioine 

 with the brain exposed and very much scratched ; presumably he 

 had had a dispute witli a wild cat as there were no tame ones 

 anywhere near. 



Most of these cats were trapped wliilst attempting to get at 

 fowls. The stomach contents were : — (i.) fowl an(l grass ; (ii.) lot 

 of grass ; (iii.) bodies of skinned birds; (iv.) two rats and a bird's 

 feather ; (v.) a rat (li. r. alexaiulrinas) and the remains of a. fowl. 



There were sorew-worms •on intestines and in viscera of one 

 Tindiga specimen, but these were not preserved. 



Lynx caracal nubicus (Fischer). 



Simba wagi in Kikami ; Simbu mweng'we in Chigogo, 

 The East African Lynx is generally referred to the above race, 

 so I have ventured to put down the subspecies, thougb no speci- 

 men was obtained. I saw one skin from Itumba in Manyoni 

 sub-district in the possession of a friend, and the only one seen 

 besides was one ollered for sn.le atSlianwa, which had presumably 

 been killed in the Mvvanza District, The natives si'.ate that these 

 animals hunt in parties of five or six but that they are rarely 

 seen. 



UNGULATA. 



B O V I D .E. 

 ? Bos CAFFER RADCLIFFEI Thos. 



Two specimens, a male from Myombo and female from Uluguru 

 Mts. Very common at Kilosa and throughout the disti-ict, they 

 frequently enter the Otto Plantation and have been seen within 

 a few hundred yards of the houses. 



My native collector, Salimu, sliot the cow with a 12-bore gun 

 in circumstances of sufficient interest, to justify my repea,ting 

 them here. Biiffiiloes had been doing damage in a shambaon the 

 mountain-side, and the owner of the plot spent several nights 

 guarding his crops. He was only armed Avith a spear, and on one 

 night was chased by ayoung cow (he may have attacked the animal 

 first), the native clambered on to a rock, and the angry animal 

 fumed at the base of it attempting to i-each him : he leaned over 

 and stabbed it with the spear about six times along the spine, 

 ths spear barely penetrated below the skin. The anima,! <lid not 

 leave the shamba. with the rest of the herd next morning but 

 lay up in the mtama near a path. It chai-ged two natives, 

 throwing them down and sticking its horn into the side of one, 

 but the horns being short not much damage was done. 

 ■ Knowing nothing of this, Salimu was returning from collecting 

 birds the following morning when Jumbe Magoma (the local 

 headman) came running towards him along the path and un- 

 ceremoniously clambered into a tree. Salimu called out to know 



