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This is a report on a School’s Exploration Society to the Zambezi basin Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to various Iron Age sites which includes the ruins known as Ruswingo we Kasekete and Mutota. The polychrome decoration on some of the pottery found appears to be of the Zimbabwe Class 4 phase which can be dated as to the middle of the fifteenth century. Other pottery termed Musengezi Ware could not be linked to any previously recorded pottery. More recent pottery was also collected.

This paper presents a preliminary study of ageing criteria in the Spring Hare, Pedetes capensis. The criteria used were weight of eye lens, weight of the baculum, and ossification of the humerus. Reproductive evidence and dentition are also considered.

This is a report on additional excavations which including digging of pits and trenches at Leopard’s Kopje, southern Matabeleland. Three phases of the Leopard’s Kopje Culture have been distinguished based on the typology of a) Buildings and general kraal plan b)pottery c) glass beads and to some extent d) known distribution.

The relationship between body weight and testis weight in male Impala (Apyceros melampus) was highly significant. There was no difference between the weight of the left and right testis. Using a simple smear technique a ram at 13 months of age is capable of fertilization. A marker increase in adult testis weight was observed a few months prior to the rutting season.

The population of the White-crowned Shrike, Eurocephalus auguitimens, is arranged into two subspecies due to colour variation.

The order of tooth eruption and replacement in the Burchell’s Zebra, Equus burchelli, is described. These data was obtained from a study of 1100 skulls at the National Museum Bulawayo (now the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe). No definite foaling peak can be established from these data, and as a result no definite criteria for ageing can be given. The order of tooth eruption and replacement is similar to that of the domestic horse.