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Lavia frons (Great-eared Bat). Bluish body and yellowish wing's ; very long 
ears. Almost diurnal; flies well by day ; hangs from the thorn-tree 
branches in the sunlight, and flies as soon as it sees a man approaching. 
One young, which remains attached to the mother until it is more than 
half her size. 
Petalia thebaica (Large-eared Nycterine Bat). Caves in the Rift Valley, also 
in the Sotik, spending the day in the tops of the limestone wells or 
caverns which contained water. Both sexes occurred together in company 
with a bat of another genus— Rhinolophus. Fly very close to the ground, 
only two or three feet above it, and usually among trees and brush, and 
not in the open, so that it is almost impossible to shoot them. 
Rhinolophus. Found at the Limestone Springs in the Sotik, and in great 
numbers in a cave at Naivasha, no other bat being found in the cave. 
Same general habits as the Nycteris. Specimens flew among our tents 
in the evening. 
Papio ibeanus. The baboon is common all over the plains, in troops. It 
digs up lily bulbs, and industriously turns over stones for grubs and 
insects. Very curious, intelligent, and bestial. 
Cercopithecus kolbi. Found in company with the Colobus in heavy forest along 
the Kikuyu escarpment. The sub-species Hindei is found on Kenia. 
Cercopithecus pygerythrus johnsoni (Green Monkey). In the yellow thorns of 
the Sotik and Rift Valley, and along the northern Guaso Nyero. Leaves 
and acacia pods in their stomachs. Live in troops of from ten to twenty 
individually. Exceedingly active and agile. Often sit motionless on the 
very tops of the trees, when they cannot be seen from below. Run well 
on the ground. 
Colobus caudatus (Black and White Monkey). Heavy mountain forests, 
Kijabe and Kenia, and on the Aberdares. Only foliage in the stomachs 
of those shot. Goes in small troops, each seemingly containing both 
males and females ; not as agile as the other monkeys, and less wary. 
The natives prize their skins. 
On the Guas Ngishu the small mammals were in general identical with 
those of the Aberdares and Mount Kenia. 
In Uganda Heller shot an old male, Cercopithecus ascanius schmidti- 
a red-backed, red-tailed, white-nosed monkey ; it was alone in a small 
grove of trees surrounded by elephant grass. In the same grove he shot 
a squirrel, Paraocerus, very different from the Kenia species. In Uganda 
there were fewer species of small mammals than in East Africa, in spite 
of the abundance of vegetation and water. 
In the Lado we found rats, mice, and shrews abundant, but the 
number of species limited, and for the most part representing wide¬ 
spread types. Some of the bats were different from any yet 
obtained ; the same may be true of the shrews. The small 
carnivores, and hyaenas also, were very scarce. 
North of Nimule Kermit shot another Funisciurus , while it was 
climbing a bamboo. 
At Gondokoro there were many bats in the houses, chiefly 
Nyctinomus, the swift-flying, high-flying, free-tailed bats, with a 
few leaf-nosed bats, and yellow bats. 
I wish field naturalists would observe the relation of zebras and 
wild-dogs. Our observations were too limited to be decisive ; but 
it seemed to us that zebras did not share the fear felt by the other 
