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  • July 3, 1967. Nairobi. After an unusual early start to the day during which Bristol fired the houseboy life was quiet. In the A.M. [morning] I visited the snake farm, the game office + the museum. In the latter I noted the following: Mammal names I may need Mole rat (fam. [family] Rhizomyidae) Tachyoryctes (splendens) Groove Toothed rat (Microtus longicaudus like) Otomys angoniensis Naked mole rat (Bathyergidae) Heterocephalus glaber [underlined]. Cape hare Lepus capensis [underlined] Tree hyrax Dendrohyrax arboreus [underlined] Rock " [hyrax] Procavia habessinica [underlined] Vervet [monkey] Cercopithecus aethiopicus [underlined] Olive baboon. Papio anubis [underlined] Sykes monkey Cercopithecus mitis [underlined] Bush Baby Gelago crassicaudatus [underlined] Serval Leptailurus serval [underlined] Plants: Mt [Mount] Kenya [open bracket around following 3 lines] Scabiosa columbaria [underlined] Lobelia lindblomei Euryops brownii (thin leaved yellow, daisy like fl. [flower] Euphorbia candelabra [underlined] Aloe secundiflora looks like the larger one I photographed. Acacia secundiflora (whistling thorn) Phoenix reclinata (looks like the one eaten by elephants Moth in buffalo horn Tinea vastella [underlined] of superfamily Tineina [underlined] a group of African clothes moths. Shells [underlined]: Cypraecassis rufa. [underlined] near Mombassa [Mombasa]. Cassis areola small with rows of rect. [rectangular] spots.
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