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Show 1900.] FROM NORTH-EASTERN AFRICA. 803 or less washed with a pinkish suffusion ; basal halves of belly-hairs dark slaty; line of demarcation on sides indistinct. Upper surface of hands and feet white. Tail rather longer than head and body, brown above, ill-defined dull buffy below. Skull apparently quite like that of M. rufescens, except that the interorbital space is much broader, very much as in M. revoili. Dimensions of the type, measured by collector in the flesh:- Head and body 113 m m . ; tail 128 ; hind foot 32 ; ear 21. Skull-greatest length 36 ; basal length 31 ; zygomatic breadth 20 ; nasal length 13; interorbital breadth 7*1 ; breadth of brain-case 15*5 ; palate length 18*5. Combined length of last three cheek-teeth (p.\ m.\ and m.2) 6; length of lower tooth-row 16*5. Hab. Mega, Western Boran Galla, S.E. of Lake Rudolf; altitude 4500 feet. Type. Female (as determined by the collector). B.M. No. 0.11.7.11. Original number 51. Collected 9 Nov., 1899. This species is no doubt closely allied to M. rufescens, but differs by its pinkish-washed, less snowy-white, and less defined belly, dull buffy instead of white underside of tail, and its markedly broader interorbital space, in which latter respect it resembles the very differently coloured M. revoili. 8. LYCAON PICTUS Temm. Skin. Hado, 60 miles S. of Milmil, Somali, Aug. 1890. 9. SCIURUS MULTICOLOR Riipp. Skin. S • Luoi, 50 miles E. of Fort Berkeley, Upper Nile, 13 March, 1.900. 10. Mus ARBORARIUS Pet. Skin. 6 . Loavie, between Tarangoli and Fort Berkeley, 10 March, 1900. 11. A R V I C A N T H I S ABYSSINICUS Riipp. Skin. o*. 12. THRYONOMYS SWINDERENIANCS Temm. Young. Fort Berkeley, 13 March, 1900. This probably represents Heuglin's Aulacodus semipalmatus, but is too young for any comparison. 13. BUBALIS LELWEL Heugl. Skull and head-skin. 60 miles E. of Lado, 25 Feb., 1900. Skull. Near Fort Berkeley, 13 March, 1900. 14. OREOTRAGUS OREOTRAGUS Zimm. Klipspringer. a. Skin and skull. ? . 190 miles E. of Lado, 21 Jan., 1900. 15. OUREBIA MONTANA Riipp. a'6. 120 miles E. of Lado, on 4° 40'N., 17 Feb., 1900. (141.) PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1900, No. LIII. 53 |
