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Show 6 MR. O. THOMAS ON MAMMALS FROM [Jan. 17, in so far as it shows the constancy at different ages of the peculiar coloration to which the name of F. servalina has been applied. The specimen has lost its label, but is no doubt one of the Monbuttu series. 5. FELIS CALIGATA, Temm. a. 3. Tingasi, Monbuttu, 16/10/83. b.3. Stat. Gadda, 14/5/84. c. Juv. p "Iride fulva. Lives in the woods. Monbuttu name 'Nango or «Kao.' " - E . [FELIS CALIGATA DOMESTICATA. a. Lado. 12/83. " Bastard between F. caligata 3 and F. domestica 2 •"-E.] 6. GENETTA TIGRINA, Schr. a, b. 2 and juv. Lado, 5/12/8 J>. " Caught with three young in its nest. A severe biter, and a great enemy to poultry. Ejected a fetid fluid on capture."-E. I only use the above name provisionally, until the species of Genets are properly worked out, which will probably result in the union of nearly all the so-called different species. 7. PoiANA RICHARDSONI, ThompS. a. Juv. An immature individual of this exceedingly rare and interesting species quite agrees with the typical specimen in the Museum collection. It is unfortunate that its label has been torn off, so that its exact locality is unknown ; but as the species is a strictly West- African one, having only hitherto been recorded from Fernando Po and Sierra Leone, it was, no doubt, obtained in the Monbuttu district, where the whole of the purely West-African species were collected. 8. CROSSARCHTJS ZEBRA, Riipp.1 a. 3 • Tingasi, 1/7/83. b. 3. Stat. Gadda, 18/1/84. c. 3 • Stat. Gadda, 20/1/84. *' Iride fusco-flava. * Ndoto ' (Monbuttu)."-E. Notes on the habits in Marungu of the closely allied C. fasciatus, Desm., have been recorded by Dr. Noack2, from the note-books left by Dr. Bohm. Of the species labelled as occurring in Monbuttu, this is absolutely the only one of a distinctly Abyssinian character. It is, however, a 1 In connection with this species, I may take the opportunity of correcting an unfortunate misprint in m y paper on the African Mungooses (P. Z. S. 1882, p. 87), where, in the synopsis of species (lines 22 and 24), tbe lengths of the fourth premolar in C. zebra and C. fasciatus have been transposed, as an examination of the detailed descriptions would show. It is C. fasciatus that has its premolar "more than 8 millim." and C. zebra " less than 7 millim " 2 T.c. p. 253. |
