NOTi:S ON EAST AKIUCAN MAMMALS. 685 ;55. Notps on EnsI-, African Mammals, collected 1920-1923. By AllTIIUK I.OVKUIDGF., F.E.S., C.M.Z.kS. [Received Augvist 14, 1923 : Head Octobrr 23, 1923.J Contents. Page Introduction C85 Primiites C87 Chiroptera G02 Iiisectivora 696 Uodpiitia 698 Carnivora 709 Uiigulata ■ 732 Jntuoduotion. The present paper may be looked upon as supplementary to the 1915-1919 notes*, as localities then recorded are not repeated (except in one or two in.stances) or similar obseivations duplicated. A new feature of the present paper is the inclusion of care-fully ascertained native names from only those tribes in whose district the specimens were collected. I consider it of importance that these names should be collected as soon as possible for, with tlie inci-easin<f facilities for travel, many tribes — especially along the Central llailway — are rapidly forgetting their specific names for animals and adopting the blanket-names of the town-bred coast Swahili, who calls every rat, excepting Oricetomys, " Panya." The rat-eating Wagogo and Wanyaturu, on the other hand, have specific names for almost every species. I have avoided using names supplied by other tribes until that particular animal has been collected in their particular district, as when a. native is asked for the name of an animal he is not familiar Avith he will invariably supply you with the name of the nearest creature in appearance to it that he knows, and at times these may not be even related (e. g., lemurs and squirrels, or mole-rats and blesmols). For these reasons a very large per-centage of the names collected by travellers and given by Matschiet are quite wrong {e.g., oh p. 65, " Uma mwitu " is given for the jackal instead of " Mbweha"), Umba ya mwitu is the hunting dog, and means "dog of the bush." Matschie gives for its Chigogo (not Kigogo) name " Mbua ya porini," wdiich is merely the concoction of a bright native, as Iminzi is the correct Chigogo equivalent. None but a naturalist can hope to obtain * Loveiidsc, " Notos on East African Mammalia." In Jour. E. A , & Uganda Nat. Hist. Soc. No. ]6, ])]). .18-12 ; No. 17, pi). 39-69. t Matseliie, " Die Sangetliiere JJ. O. A," 1895.
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