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Show 1905.] MAMMALS FROM ZULULAND. 265 Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh):-Head and body 102 mm. ; tail 51 ; hind foot 14-5; ear 10. Skull-back of condyle to front face of i1 23'5 ; basal length 20‘5 ; breadth across brain-case 10; length of upper tooth-series 9-8. IIah. Umvolosi, Zululand. Alt. 70 m. Type. Male. B.M. no. 4.12.3.29. Original number 861. Collected 5 September, 1904. Six specimens examined. While there is a general agreement in size throughout the Shrews assigned to C. flavescens, these specimens from Umvolosi are so markedly smaller that we think they should have a subspecific name. 18. H erpestes g r a c il is pu n c tu la tu s Gray. (5 . 581. $ . 610. 614, 653. Sibudeni. 6 . 833. $ . 800'. Umvolosi. $ . 899. Ngoye Hills. As we have shown in a previous paper, H. g. punctulatus is a perfectly tenable subspecies, which is widely distributed over South-east Africa, being replaced further north by the paler II. g. cauui. " Zulu name ‘ Cagiti.' " Seems to be exclusively a bush animal, living singly or in pairs, but not in colonies. It is more often taken with dogs than trapped. It sleeps and breeds in some hollow tree and lives principally on insects."-C. H. B. G. 19. H erpestes g a l e r a Erxl. 5 . 917. Ngoye Hills. 20. C rossarchus fa sc ia tu s Desm. 6 • 852, 853. $ . 855, 856. Umvolosi. " Zulu name ‘ Oguya.' On the whole rather a rare animal. It frequents the thorn-bush and thickly wooded sluits and river-banks, generally in parties of half a dozen. When chased the whole party will, as a rule, take shelter in the same hole. The skin, especially the banded part of the back, is valued by the natives. It feeds principally on coleopterous insects."-C. H. B. G. 21. L y c a o n pictus zu lu e n s is Thos. Two native skins. Itala Mts. " Zulu name ‘ N'Kenjane.' " The two specimens sent were obtained by the natives from a troop of some eight individuals which had probably come from the Umvolosi River. The survivors did not remain long, but returned to the river. " The natives say they are rather savage when hard pressed, and are very destructive to goats and sheep."-C. H. B. G. |