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APPENDIX B 
Giraffa Camelopardalis iippelskirchi . . . Masailand Giraffe 
Giraffa Camelopardalis rothschildi . . . Five-horned Giraffe 
Elephas africanus peeli .British East African Elephant 
FER.E—CARNIVORES 
Felis leo massaica ....... East African Lion 
Felis pardus suahelica ...... East African Leopard 
Felis capensis hindei ..... East African Serval Cat 
Cynmlums jubatus guUatus .African Cheetah 
The following is a partial list of those species obtained by Heller 
concerning which he (and occasionally I) could make observations as 
to their life histories. In the comparisons with or allusions to our Amer¬ 
ican species there is^ I need hardly say^ no implication of kinship; the 
differences are generally fundamental^ and I speak of the American 
animals only for the purpose of securing a familiar standard of compari¬ 
son. The central African fauna is of course much more nearly allied to 
that of Europe than to that of North America^ and were I familiar with 
small European mammals, I should use them, rather than the American, 
for purposes of illustration. 
Heliosciurus keniee (Kenia Forest Squirrel). Mount Kenia, B. E. A. Heller shot 
one in a tree in the heavy forest by our first elephant camp. In size and ac¬ 
tions like our gray squirrel. Shy. 
Paraxerus jacksoni. Shot at same camp; common at Nairobi and Kijabe, B. E. A. 
A little smaller than our red squirrel; much less noisy and less vivacious in 
action. Tamer than the larger squirrel, but much shyer than our red squirrel or 
chickaree. Kept among the bushes and lower limbs of the trees. Local in 
distribution; found in pairs or small families. 
Graphiurus parvus (Pygmy Dormouse). Everywhere in B. E. A. in the forest; 
arboreal, often descending to the ground at night, for they are strictly nocturnal. 
Found in the woods fringing the rivers in the Sotik and on the Athi Plains, but 
most common in the juniper forests of the higher levels. Spend the daytime 
in crevices and hollows in the big trees. Build round, ball-like nests of bark fibre 
and woolly or cottony vegetable fibre. One of them placed in a hollow, four 
inches across, in a stump, the entrance being five feet above the ground. Caught 
in traps baited with walnuts or peanuts. 
Tatera pothw Heller (n. s.) (Athi Gerbille). Common on the Athi Plains, in open 
ground at the foot of the hills. Live in short grass, not bush. Nocturnal. 
Live in burrows, each burrow often possessing several entrances, and sometimes 
several burrows, all inhabited by same animal, not communicating. 
Tatera varia Heller (n. s.) (Sotik Gerbille). A large form, seemingly new. Lives 
in the open plains, among the grass; not among bushes, nor at foot of hills. 
Lives in burrows, one animal apparently having several, each burrow with a 
little mound at the entrance. Nocturnal. In aspect and habits bears much 
resemblance to our totally different kangaroo rats. 
