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which has been referrerl to this race though the two skins are 

 very difterent. 



Mcasmements of Kilosa $ 1170. 180. 340. 130 mm., and 

 Sagayo $ 1180. 150. 335. 140 mm. In the latter was a fwtal 

 female, 480. 68. 180. 76 mm. 



A male Ava.s found dead in fine condition, and I attribute its- 

 death to the bite of a iiuft-adder, there being a puncture on the 

 haunch, the blood was fluid and much hjemorrhage about the vent 

 (Kilo.sa, 26. iii. 21). Another was found in a donga that had been 

 killed by a leopard, which had sprung on its back and had been 

 carried some yards by the buck— a very old male. Setting gins 

 for leopards on paths frequented by leopards is not altogether 

 satisfactory, as I know of two instances in which bushbuck 

 stepped into the traps and were caught ; in one of these cases 

 the leopard added insult to injury by carrying off the buck. 



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CnoiROPOTAMus ciioiiioroTAMbs DyEMONis Major. 



Nguruwe in Kikami and Kisvvahili ; Ngubi in Kisagara. 



A young male (730. 305. 235. 120 mm.) Bush-pig was shot by 

 my collector in rank grass into which the native had forced his 

 way to pick up a monkey. A large pig which accompanied it 

 (? mother) attempted to urge it away by rending its belly with 

 her tusks, and inflicted no fewer than twenty-three large cuts as 

 she endeavoured to push it along (Tindiga, 28. i. 22). 



Mrs. Billinge, of Iringa, Avrote me that the wild pigs of 

 llumrnli appear to be a, smaller race, very fierce, and that " they 

 play havoc Avith dogs." She sent in a half-grown one which, 

 being confined' in a room, sprang up around the walls to a height 

 of two feet clear of the ground and eventually killed itself 

 (c?. 800. 240. 180. 120 mm.). Three other captive young ones 

 died as a result of being exposed to the sun, and one of these 

 which I measured was ^. 400, 135. 110. 65 mm. (Kilosa 

 l,ii.22). 



PjiAcociioEaus yETiiioi'icus MAssAicus Ltinub. 



Ngiri in Kikami, Kisagara, Kisukuma, and Kiswahili. 



Four AVarthogs were shot at Sagayo, of which the largest male 

 measured 1110. 360. 210. 120 mm. and was plumbeous in colour. 

 A female (1220. 350. 195. 119 mm.) shot the same day was 

 brickish red. A few days before (2.xi. 22) a plumbeous female 

 was seen accompanied by three bright rufous young ones. 



On tlie IVIkata Plains one day I stood face to face Avith a Wart- 

 hog at about a hundred yards distance and mistook it for the 

 gnarled roots of an overthrown tree ; a second "Warthog standing 

 immediately behind the first, but with its head down, helped to 

 foster the illusion of a fallen tree-trunk. 



The Sagayo specimens were swarming with tsetse (Glossina 



