LONNBERG, MAMMALS. 



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Tie Lul;p fi'nkirn Hi/trini (according to MATSCHIE). 

 Ground colour light brown (heUbraun ) inane on back 



ami shoulders clay brown ( lehmbraun ). 

 (Lower side of?) neck and chest dirty whitish grey. 



Belly whitish brown. 



Flanks, shoulders, haunches, and thighs with dark 

 brown spots, which on the latter are considerably smaller 

 than on the flanks and not sharply defined. 



Posterior portion of back on either side of vertebral 

 line with a row of great blackish brown spots. 

 Sides of neck not spotted. 



Upper parts of head dirty brownish grey. 



Lower lip blackish grey. 

 Forefeet dirty brownish grey. 

 Hindfeet brownish grey with dark brown toes. 

 Tail of the same colour as the flanks, terminal third, 

 and below blackish brown. 



Length of head and body 132 cm. (J 1 ). 

 Length of tail without hair 22 cm. 

 with hair 33 cm. 



Tlie Kibotioto Hyama 



pale tan on the flanks becoming more rusty red to- 

 wards the mane. 



Sides of neck rust-coloured like the mane, the lower 

 side white. 



Dirty whitish with small brown spots. 



Sides of body and legs down to carpal and tarsal 

 joints with dark brown spots which are well defined 

 but somewhat varying in size. The spots are not quite 

 so dark on shoulders and forelegs as on bindlegs where 

 they are almost blackish. 



Similar. 



With two rows of almost confluent but hardly con- 

 spicuous spots of a somewhat darker shade of rusty. 



Greyish brown, dark brown on the snout. 



Sides of head paler gradually shading into greyish 

 white on the throat. 



Similar. 



Yellowish grey a little mixed with rusty brown. 



Dirty yellowish brown mixed with rusty. 



Proximal half coloured lili 

 with a big black tuft. 

 150 cm. (<j>). 



22 cm. 

 34 cm. 



flanks terminal half 



The dimensions of the skulls of the type of Crocotta genninans are also different in 

 several respects from those of the Hyaena from Kibonoto as is apparent from the follow- 

 ing table of measurements: 



Crocotta germinans. 



Basilar length of skull 236 mm. 



Greatest zygomatic breadth 196 



Least interorbital width 67 



Distance between upper end of foramina infrnorWalia . 74 



Least postorbital width of skull 49,5 



Width of palatal opening at sutura palato-ptenjgotdea . . 27,5 >= 

 Distance between outer sides of outer upper incisors . . 38 

 Distance between upper carnassial teeth at their hind end 105 

 Distance between the bulla at the foramen situated at the 



middle of their inner side 27,5 



Length of upper caruassial tooth 35 



Length of upper third premolar 23,7 > 



C. kibonotensis. 

 231 mm. 

 171 



58 

 60 

 47 



26,5 > 

 38 

 89 



26,5 > 

 36 

 22 



The posterior margin of the palate of C. germinans is described by MATSCHIE with 

 the following words: Der Ausschnitt des Palatum ist vorn ziemlich tief und oval. The 



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