ON SAFARI 
XIV' 
05 
There are interesting cats in East Africa besides 
lions, leopards, and cheetahs. Whilst in the Rift 
Valley we had opportunities of seeing the Serval Cat. 
It is a pretty but untamable animal and very destruc¬ 
tive to poultry. A settler hearing a noise in his fowl- 
house one evening sent a lad to see that the birds 
were safe and not disturbed by cats. The boy returned 
to say that he had made them safe by shutting and 
The Serval Cat. 
Pretty but fierce and untamable, and very destructive to poultry. 
fastening the door of the fowlhouse. In the morning 
twenty out of twenty-three birds lay dead and a Serval 
Cat sat on the cross beam. The boy had shut the animal 
in with the birds. 
The kittens of the Serval Cat are ferocious little 
brutes; they scratch and bite vehemently. We saw 
a native in charge of one at Njoro, and the skin of his 
belly was freely cross-hatched by the claws of the pretty 
