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LIST OF MAMMALS, 



Collected by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild and Mr. A. F. E. Woollaston, 



PRINCIPALLY NEAR ShENDI, ON THE UpPER NiLE, IN 1901. 



By W. E. DE WINTON, 

 With Field Notes by the Collectors. 

 (Plate XX.) 

 ]. Asellia tridens Geoff. 

 Four skins, Nos. 108 to 111. March 22 . 

 A number of specimens in spirit. 

 Forearms, 48 to 52 mm. 



Some of these specimens are of a brilliant fulvous colour, while others are of 

 the usual dull greyish. As is well known, this variation is not unusual in bats, 

 and is independent of sex and season. 



" This bat is very plentiful in a cave in one of the granite hills near the 

 Pyramids of Meroe. We examined some hundreds of specimens. The very orange 

 form is rare ; every intermediate shade, however, exists between light drab and 

 bright orange." ^'- c. R- & A. F. R. W, 



2. Nycteris aethiopica Dobs. 

 Two skins, Nos. 63, 07. March In. 

 A number of specimens in spirit. 

 Forearm, 45 to 47-5 mm. 



" This bat is common near Shendi, hiding by day in the upper dry portions of 

 the wells in the desert. We also got two specimens near the Pyramids of Meroe." 



N. C. R. & A. F. R. W, 



3. Glauconyoteris floweri De Wint. 



(Ann. Mag. Nat. Ili.it. Her. 7 Vol. VII. 1901, p. 45.) 



Two specimens in spirit. 



This species was hitherto only known from the White Nile below Khartoum. 



" Common near Shendi, but hard to procure. This bat hides by day in the 

 acacia thickets low down near the roots of the trees. At dusk it crawls up the 

 branches and takes flight, uttering a very characteristic squeak, which it continues 

 to make on the wing. Its very low flight and habit of frequenting the dense and 

 thorny acacia bushes makes this bat a difficult species to collect." 



N. C. R. & A. F, R. W. 



4. Taphozous perforatus Geoff. 

 Three skins, Nos. 69, 7U, 112. March 12 and 22. 

 A number of specimens in spirit. 

 Forearm, 60 to 65 mm. 



" We found this bat in fair numbers, but only in the limestone quarry near the 

 Pyramids of Meroe, some twenty-five miles north of Shendi. Captain Grant, of 

 Berber, was the first to tell us of its existence there." 



X. c. R. & A. F. li. \v. 



