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Show OX MAMMALS FROM Ab YSSIXIA. [Nov. 4, terminal halves, with a huffy or dark isabelline subterminal band. Under surface mostly dull sandy or buffy, with but little white; not sharply defined from the upper surface. Crown of head grizzled mummy-brown, like back, a large area round each eye whitish buffy. Ears of only medium length, their outer surface dark grizzled brown, with an inconspicuous patch of dull black behind their tips; fringe of long hairs on lower part of anterior edge, of shorter hairs along the posterior edge, dull sandy; inner surface brown proximally, sandy terminally. Nape-patcli rather paler than " cinnamon-rufous." Fore limbs like nape-patcli at elbows, becoming sandy buffy on the hands; feet also dull sandy buffy. Tail unfortunately wanting in the only specimen. Skull stoutly built, with a long heavy muzzle ; supraorbital wings unusually small and weak; anterior shoulders of zygomata large and prominent, the breadth across them exceeding the posterior zygomatic breadth ; palatal bridge of medium breadth ; bullae decidedly small. Upper incisors each with a deep but simple enamel indentation, corresponding about to no. xiii. of the series figured by Dr. Major1; the groove entirely filled up with cement. Dimensions of the type, measured in skin :- Head and body 510 mm. ; hind foot 102; ear-opening (wet) 90. Skull-greatest length 90'5 ; basilar length (58'8 ; zygomatic breadth 40'3 ; nasals, length diagonally 41, breadth 20; interorbital breadth 21, breadth across supraorbital wings 21*7; intertemporal breadth 10'7 ; palatal foramina 22 x 8'5 ; palatal bridge 7‘4 ; antero-posterior diameter of bullse 10'2. Type. The specimen recorded above. B. M. No. 2.9.9.54. This very interesting Hare differs widely from all the pale long-eared N. African Desert Hares, and is apparently the representative in Abyssinia of the L. whytei group of Nyasa and Central Africa, with which it somewhat agrees in cranial characters and in the proportions of its ears. I have named it in honour of my friend, Mr. Charles E. Fagan, Assistant Secretary of the Museum, to whom Mr. Degen, like all other collectors making expeditions for the benefit of the National Museum, has been much indebted for assistance. 25. P rocavia bru c e i somalic a Thos. Adult 3 & young. Bijo. 16 January. 26. O rycteropus a f er <e th io p ic u s S un d . Andota. May. 1 Trans. Linn. Soc., 2nd ser. Zool. vii. p. 468 (1899). |
