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Show 1891.] MAMMALS OF NYASALAND. 145 digits, P. brucei in Nyasa is distinguished from P. brucei elsewhere, as just mentioned, by its white ears, pure white belly, and white digits, each species when meeting its cougener having, as it were, emphasized its own distinguishing characters in order to be unlike the other. For P. brucei, wherever found, is already characterized by its pale colour generally, whitish head, and white or pale yellow dorsal spots, while P. capensis, of which P. johnstoni may be looked upon as a modification, has a generally dark colour and a black dorsal spot. Thus there seems to be between the two a sort of mutual "repulsion" in their characters, the exact converse of the better known "mimicry." Its object would very probably be that of furnishing the individuals of each species with " recognition marks " by which to know comrades from rivals. 26. EHINOCEROS BICORNIS, L. a. Horns. Shire Highlands. 27. PHACOCHOSRUS ^ETHIOPICUS, Pall. a, b. Ad. skulls. 3 2 • Shire Highlands. 28. BUBALIS LICHTENSTEINI, Pet. a. Ad. sk. and skull. Shire Highlands. 6. Skull. Shire Highlands. 29. OREAS CANNA, H. Sm. a, b. 2 ad. sks. 2 • Shire Highlands. 30. STREPSICEROS KUDU, Gray. a. Ad. skull. 3 . Shire Highlands. 31. TRAGELAPHUS SCRIPTUS, Pall. a. Ad. skull. Shire Highlands. 32. KOBUS ELLIPSIPRYMNUS, Og. a, b. 2 frontlets and horns. Shire Highlands. 33. ^EPYCEROS MELAMPUS, Licht. a, b. 2 skulls. Shire Highlands. 34. OREOTRAGUS SALTATOR, Bodd. a. Ad. sk. 3 • Fort Lister, Milanji, 3600 ft. 17/7/93. " Found in pairs at the base of the high cliffs among rocks, aud also on the higher ridges. Also on Mt. Zomba."-A. W. 35. MANIS TEMMINCKI, Smuts. a. Ad. sk. Zomba. PROC. ZOOL. SOC-1894, No. X. 10 |