Pebruaéry 
(277) collected. They apparently do not distinguish the various small 
of mice by special names as do the Taita. Rained in the evening but went 
shining in the rain. Shot two Genettes in a swamp and found on desecting 
that they were both feeding on frogs. Shot an immature mungoose with the 
proportions, footpads, underfur of the white-tailed but the tail wholly 
black. 12: Dolo brought in a mingos gracilis of normal color. Broke 
camp at noon and safaried down through the forest toward Kakumega. Iade 
camp at dark on the edge of @ shamba country. Rained during the whole 
journey. “he way lead through heavy forest on & wide well made road. 
The trees here were immense, (278) so high that a shot gun had no effect 
on birds at their tops. Saw many herds of kimas some of them mised with 
the redtailed tumbilis. Shot an old ¢ kima. Saw no sign or trakcs of 
animals. Wear camp saw several red-tailed p@érrots, Uganda. On the way 
out of camp shot @ large + hare which I flushed from &@ thicket . This is 
the pe we have seen in the day. Bought a Genette skin of a Nandi- 
Dorobo yesterday which is small and has many small black spots without 
the light brown centers of the large genettes caught at Kaimosi. This 
is probably a smaller species from the top of the escarpment. 23: The 
natives at Kakumega brought in many Epimys panya and one Tachyoryctes. 
In going up the road shining I met a “iriki with two Uganda Duiker skins 
with the heads cut off short and rolled up with the skins. These were 
purchased, one was a ¢ and the other a homless ¥. On the way through 
the forest I saw a mixed troup of kimas and tumbilis. (279) Shot a 
solitary kima ¢. Saw many pairs and trios of Uganda red-tailed parrots. 
Also a few large black and white hornbills. Shot one of the latter. 
shined back to camp along the road. [ shot a large Nandina from a naked 
of a small tree which overhung the roed at a height of 20 feet. Tumer 
went to the Yala River but found it all shamba and no forest with perassy 
and mud banks but no sign of otter or hippo. On the way back he shined 
and shot a@ serval and a jackal. Apparently the Uganda Duiker keep to 
the thick forest and do not even stop on the forest roads as shining 
hes failed to get them on wide roads through dense forest. 14: The 
a 
Tiriki brought in several Tachyoryctes, all *'s. Rained 811 morning. 
In the late P,M. I went up the road to the forest, in another heavy shower. 

