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Show 1890.] ON MAMMALS COLLECTED BY DR. EMIN PASHA. 443 12. FORBES, W. A.-Forbes's Final Idea as to the Classification Birds. Ibis, 1884, p. 119. 13. NITZSCU'S Pterylography. Ed. Sclater. Ray Society, 1867. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXIX. Myology of Podica senegalensis. Fig. 1. Patagial muscles. T.p, tensor patagii; Bi.s, biceps slip; Bi, biceps; Hit, tendon attaching tensor patagii to humerus. 2. Muscles of thigh, outer view. Bi, Biceps; 1, 2, 3, its three insertions; y, gastrocnemius; t.f, tensor fascia, cut and reflected. 3. Muscles of thigh, inner aspect. Amb, ambiens; afc, accessory femorocaudal; st, semitendinosus; f.c, femoro-caudal; sm, semimembranosus. 3 ... Insertion of semitendinosus (st.) and semimembranosus (s»..). 4. Some of the muscles of the shoulder-girdle. Anc, Anconajus longus; Anc', its tendinous slip to humerus; Sc, scapula; LD1, LD1, two latissimi dorsi; D, deltoid; Tr, triceps; Hu, humeral head of anconeus. 3. On a Collection of Mammals obtained by Dr. Emin Pasha in Central and Eastern Africa. By OLDFIELD T H O M A S , F.Z.S. [Received June 3, 1890.] (Plate XL.) . The Mammals now described were collected partly on Dr. Emin's return march from his Equatorial Province, and partly by himself or by friends of his during his stay at Bagamoyo. The former, like the magnificent collection sent over in 1887 ], were presented by him direct to the Natural History Museum, and the latter were given to the Zoological Society, whose Council have in their turn passed them on to the Museum for comparison and preservation. After the collections described in the previous papers were dispatched in 1887, Dr. Emin continued to investigate the fauna of the region of the great lakes, and it speaks volumes for his energy and enthusiasm that after all the collections then made had most unfortunately been lost, he should, nevertheless, have perseveringly continued to collect all the way down during the painful march from Equatoria to Bagamoyo, and should, under such difficulties, have been able to obtain so many valuable specimens as are here described. Later, wmile at Bagamoyo, he exercised his influence among his friends, and the specimens recorded as from Monda, in the iNguru Mountains, and from Mandera, a place equidistant from Saadani and Bagamoyo, about 25 miles from the coast, were obtained for him in this way. Those from the latter locality were collected by Lieut. Langheld, to whose friendly exertions we owe some of the most interesting specimens obtained. Every skin collected during the march has been most carefully labelled by Emin himself, many of the particulars so recorded being 1 See P. Z. S. 1888, p. 3. |