. Wild game in Zambezia . colour, their soft thickcoat covered with spots—or perhaps more cor-rectly blotches—of a bright umber brown. Theygrow very tame and make charming pets, al-though, curiously enough, one rarely sees them in astate of domestication. As a rule blotched genets are wood-dwellers,making their squirrel-like homes in holes in thetrunks and branches of great forest trees. Theyfollow a mode of life, however, which bears noresemblance to that of the harmless squirrel,being, I believe, exclusively carnivorous, andcausing considerable havoc among game birds,to say nothing of the po
. Wild game in Zambezia . colour, their soft thickcoat covered with spots—or perhaps more cor-rectly blotches—of a bright umber brown. Theygrow very tame and make charming pets, al-though, curiously enough, one rarely sees them in astate of domestication. As a rule blotched genets are wood-dwellers,making their squirrel-like homes in holes in thetrunks and branches of great forest trees. Theyfollow a mode of life, however, which bears noresemblance to that of the harmless squirrel,being, I believe, exclusively carnivorous, andcausing considerable havoc among game birds,to say nothing of the poultry and eggs of theremotely established farmer. There are several other small cats scatteredabout the Province, whose skins are usuallyobtained by trapping. I have, therefore, foundit advantageous and most interesting to providewhen travelling in the interior two or three strongsteel traps. These, set with a little meat and laidat the sides of the native paths, a couple ofhundred yards or so from the camp, have not. CIVET.
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