NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 
men obtained by Brehm is simply a Small Grey 
Mungoose somewhat lighter in colour and smaller 
in size than usual. Unless other specimens are 
forthcoming soon, I consider the Pale Mungoose 
should be erased from the list of South African 
mammals, 
WHITE-TAILED MuNGOOSE 
(Mungos albicauda) 
This large mungoose occurs in South Africa in the 
eastern part of the Cape Province, and throughout 
Natal where it is common, and thence northwards 
to Rhodesia, and on upwards along the eastern side 
of Africa to Abyssinia, and across to Guinea on the 
west coast. 
The White-tailed Mungoose is an inhabitant of 
the bush-veld, rocky scrub-covered valleys and hill- 
sides, and the outskirts of forests. I have never 
yet found it far from cover such as that afforded by 
the patches of thick scrub found on the bush-veld.. 
In Natal it used to be common in the neighbour- 
hood of Pietermaritzburg, in the adjacent Town 
Bush, from whence it ventured at night and preyed 
upon, the poultry of the residents in the neighbour- 
ing valley. In secluded localities where there is 
little or no danger of it being surprised by man or 
his dogs, this mungoose issues forth during the 
afternoons in search of food, but is strictly noc- 
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