FA UNA OF ZANZIBAR. 



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Section 4. 



Notes on the Fauna of Zanzibar. 



The list of Zanzibarian Fauna and Flora is 

 not extensive. In the plantations the Kortiba or 

 Gralago abounds, and there is a small and pretty 

 long-tailed monkey (cercopithecus griseo-viridis) 

 with black face, green back, and grey belly: 

 it is playful and easily tamed. This, as well as 

 a large species of bat, is pronounced delicious by 

 curious gourmands. The French 6 tigre ' and the 

 English 'panther' (Felis Serval) is a leopard 

 about 18 inches high, and of disproportionate 

 length, with a strong large arm ; the upper part 

 of the skull vanishes as in the cheeta, and the 

 throat is so thick that no collar will keep its 

 place. This felis is destructive in the interior of 

 the Island; and in parts of the Continent the 

 people fear it more than they do the lion : it is 

 trapped in the normal cage, and is speared with- 

 out mercy. Two kinds of civets (Viverra ci- 

 vctta, and V. genetta). one small, the other bigger 



