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Show 952 CAPT. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE [Dec. 18, possible as in the Exhibition Bird Gallery, and not according to the volumes of the Catalogue. II. MAMMALS. Family CERCOPITHECIDAE. CERCOPITHECUS SABJEUS (L.). The Grivet Monkey was noted on the 14th and 15th of March at Abu Zeit, and on the 19th of March near Eenk; each time in small parties of five or six individuals, sometimes walking on the ground, sometimes in trees. W e saw no other species of monkey along the White Nile, but at Gabt-el-Meghahid, through the kindness of Major M. Peake, E.A., and Captain H. N. Dunn, E.A.M.C., I obtained from natives two live specimens of the Eed Monkey (Cercopithecus patas) and a young Baboon (Papio anubis or an allied species), all three said to have been caught in Southern Kordofan. Family LEMURIDAE. Two Lemurs, apparently some species of Galago, were obtained by Mr. E. S. Jackson, Welsh Eegt., between Jebel Ain and Jebel Ahmed Agar. Family FELIDAE. FELIS LEO (L.). Lions were met with between Jebel Ahmed Agar and Kaka during March. FELIS PARDUS L. A Leopard was shot near Gabt-el-Meghahid, and a young one caught alive near Kaka. FELIS SERVAL Schreb. A Serval was shot by Mr. C. Crawley near Kaka on the 18th of April. GENETTA sp. inc. A Genet was shot near Gabt-el-Meghahid ; the skin is now in the British Museum, but more specimens are required of these animals from various localities before it can be identified. I have also at different times obtained two Genets from the neighbourhood of Omdurman. Family HYiENLDvE. HYJENA CROCUTA (Erxl.). W e saw a Spotted Hyaena on the Bahr-el-Ghazal on the 29th March, heard them at night on the White Nile on the 20th April, and a skull was picked up near the Bahr-el-Zeraf. |