EAST AFRICAN SNAKKS. 



893 



Egyptinn Cobra, andtlie present specimen from Kilosa is only the 

 second which I have come across. It wns shot by Capt. Turnley 

 beneath a rock in a dry ravine called Mbvveni and is now in the 

 Game IDept. collection. 



Male just under G feet (14-75 ■}- 325). Scales 17, 108,69,7; 

 the second labial on the right side is divided. 



The stomach was found to contain a mass of mammal fur and 

 a piece of tree bark measuring 31 X 26 mm. obviously swallowed 

 with the food. 



Dendraspis anousticeps Smith. 



Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. 1896, p. 437. 



Six specimens from ]\£orogoro, Ohanzuru, and Kilosa, and a 

 7-foot specimen killed in the passage of a house a.t Mombasa. 



The largest male was 94 inches (1880 + 502) and largest female 

 was 97| inches (2332 + 139), Morogoro. Both ICilosa si^akes were 

 bright leaf-gieen a.nd under 6 feet. 



Two newiy-hatclied young with the umbilical cord still unhealed 

 were found on March 5th and 31st respectively, both at the 

 same spot. 



The one Kilosa specimen which was brouglit to me alive fed 

 with avidity on dead rats ; in fact, I think being nervous of large 

 rats, mambas prefer them dead. As with my Morogoro examples, 

 it would not commence to feed if anyone was about, possibly 

 realising that it was at a disadvantage ; however, by returning 

 ■quietly 1 succeeded in watching it feeding. 



Y I p E R I D iE. 



Causus rhombeatus Licht. 



Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. 1896, p. 467. 



Three examples of the Rhombic Night Adder were taken in 

 Nairobi and the Ngong Forest. 



During one week one of these adders swallowed a largish frog, 

 three small toads, and nine very small toads. On being chloro- 

 formed a week later and its stomach examined, all were found to 

 have been completely digested except the feet of the frog. 

 Another snake was seen by me to take seven small toads one 

 after the other, each about the size of a thimble. 



Causus resimus Peters. 



Blgr. Cat. Snakes, iii. 1896, p.. 408. 



Two wcio taken at Lnguo and Sagayo. 



The Luguo specimen, though on reddish soil, was a beautiful 

 grass-green ; the Sagayb specimen, on the same kind of ground, 

 was tiie usual greyish olive. Both with the normal juarkings. 

 The former had 7 labials on the right lip and normal 6 on left ; 

 the latter 26 pairs of subcaudals. 



