12 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 10. N:0 12. 



Arvicaiitliis abyssiniciis subsp.? 



Two female specimens from Donya Sabuk (caught resp. ^^i 

 and V2 1914) are very dark, considerably darker than a spe- 

 cimen of A. a. nairohce Allén with which I ha ve compared 

 them. In the larger specimen the colour of the ventral sur- 

 face hardly differs from that of the flanks which are a little 

 paler than the back. The lättar is blackish brown, grizzled 

 with dirty whitish, or pale straw colour. 



The coUectors measurements are: 



Head and body . . . 134 mm. 115 mm. 



Tail 113 » 114 » 



Hind foot 30 » 30 » 



Ear 19,5 » 16 » 



Unfortunately the skull of the larger specimen has been 

 broken in the trap. The length of the upper molar series 

 is 6,5 mm. and the least interorbital breadth is 4,8 mm. 

 These latter measurements are smaller than the correspond- 

 ing ones of A. a. nairohce, although the animal itself is as 

 large. It is possible that these specimens represent a sepa- 

 rate race, but for the present this is difficult to decide with- 

 out more material. 



Canis (Lupulella) mesoiuelas Schreber. 



A skin and a skull with rather worn teeth are found in 

 the collection, but unfortunately the exact locality is not 

 indicated. As H. R. H. Prince Vilhelm chiefly hunted near 

 Juja farm and Donya Sabuk it appears most probable that 

 this specimen has been collected near either of these places. 

 The specimen is a male, but its skull is rather small as the 

 measurements quoted below indicate. 



Maximum length 150,5 mm. 



Condyloincisive length 142,3 » 



Basicranical length 134,4 » 



Zygomatic breadth 87,4 » 



Greatest width of braincnse 50,3 > 



Length of nasals 50,3 » 



Interorbital breadth 31,8 » 



Distance from hind surface of m* to front of c • 65,6 » 



Length of upper carnassial (crown) (l^jS) 16,0 » 



