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Show 1892.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON MAMMALS FROM NYASSALAND. 97 4. On a small Collection of Mammals brought by Mr. A. Sharpe from Nyassaland. By PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. [Received January 13, 1892.] Mr. Alfred Sharpe, H.B.M. Vice-Consul for Nyassaland, has kindly shown to m e a collection of hunters' skins and horns of Mammals formed during his recent stay in the Shire Highlands and in other parts of that territory. A selection of these I have the pleasure of exhibiting this evening, and I have written a few notes upon them. 1. CoLOBUS ANGOLENSIS, Sci. Colobus angolensis, Sci. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 246, 1880, p. 6 8 ; Bccage, Jorn. Lisb. ser. 2, i. p. 9. Colobus palliatus, Peters, Monatsb. Berl. Ak. 1868, p. 637, 1879, p. 830, t. iv. a. A flat skin of a fine adult example of this species with the elongated white hairs on the shoulders well developed, as shown in Peters's excellent figure of this well-marked species (op. cit. 1879, pi. iv. a). Mr. Sharpe informs m e that this skin was obtained at the north end of Nyassa in the Konde country. 2. CERCOPITHECUS PLUTO, Gray, P. Z. S. 1848, p. 56, Mamrn. pi. 3. A flat skin of this species, which, like Colobus angolensis, was originally described from Angola. It is from the interior, on the west side of Lake Nyassa. 3. VIVERRA CIVETTA, Schreb. 4. GENETTA TIGRINA (Schreb.) ; Bocage, op. cit. p. 177. Flat skins of both these species, which appear to be abundant in the Shire Highlands and all along the coast of Nyassa. 5. HERPESTES ALBICAUDA, G. Cuv.; Thomas, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 75; Bocage, op. cit. p. 180. Mr. O. Thomas has kindly named this skin for me. This Herpestes is a wide-ranging species in Eastern Africa, extending from Upper Nubia to Natal. The present specimen was obtained on the route between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Mocro. 6. SCIURUS MUTABILIS, Peters, Reise n. Mossamb., Zool. i. p. 131. The single flat skin of this Squirrel has likewise passed under Mr. Thomas's supervision. P R O C . ZOOL. Soc-1892, No. VII. 7 |