A REVISED LIST OF THE MA:\IMALS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 

 Bv E. C. Chubb, F.Z.S. 



During the last ten years a considerable amount of attention 

 has been paid by systematic mammalogists to South Africa and 

 a number of valuable papers have been published. The most 

 important of these is a series of ten. based upon collections made 

 by Mr. C. H. B. Grant in various j^arts of the sub-continent, and 

 presented to the British Museum by ]\Ir. C. D. Rudd, while our 

 knowledge of the Chrysochlorida' has been greatly augmented by 

 Dr. R. Broom's valuable monograph of the family. 



This work has rendered Sclater's \-olumes on " The Mammals 

 of South Africa," published in 1901, altogether out-of-date by 

 the discovery of a number of new forms, and many names, which 

 at that time were regarded as synonyms of others, have been shewn 

 to belong to distinct species ; while not a few have been altered 

 in order to conform to now recognised rules of nomenclature. 



The object of the present paper is to give a list of the species 

 at present known to occur in South Africa, south of the Zambesi 

 and Cunene Rivers, with references to the original descriptions 

 of all forms not recognised by Sclater. It comprises no less than 

 373 species and sub-species, (exclusive of the order Cetacea) which 

 is 152 more than the number given in Sclater's work. 



It is true that many of these recently described forms have 

 been separated on somewhat slight differences, and many represent 

 only local varieties ; but it must be borne in mind that the work 

 has been done on large series of excellently prepared material, 

 carefully labelled with measurements taken in the flesh, when con- 

 stant differences become apparent which would be taken for 

 individual variation on single specimens from different localities. 



The following is a list of papers relating to South African 

 Mammals that have been published since the issue of Sclater's 

 " Mammals of South Africa " : — 



Andersen, K. . . Five new Rhiiiolophi irom Africa. Ann. Mag. Nat. 



Hist. (7), XIV., p. 378 (1904). 

 On Hipposiderns caffer, Sund. and its closest allies. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), XVII., p. 269 (1906). 

 Pterocyou, Rousettus and Microiiysteris. Ann. Mag. 



Nat. Hist. (7), XIX., p. 502 (1907). 

 Broom, R On some new species of Chrysochloris. i\nn. Mag. Nat. 



Hist. (7), XIX., p. 262 (1907). 

 A Contribution to the knowledge of the Cape Golden- 

 Moles. Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc, XVIII., p. 283. 

 Further oljservations on the ChrysochlorideB. Anu. 



Transvaal Mus., I., p. 14(1908). 

 Chubb, E. C. .. A new Rhodesian Hare — Lepits zuliiensis micklemi. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), I., p. 467 (1908). 

 List of Rhodesian Mammals in the Rhodesia Museum 



collection. Annual Report, Rho. Mus., 1907, p. 



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 Some little-known South .\frican Mammals recently 

 obtained in Rhodesia. Annual Report S.A. Ass. 

 for the Adv. of Science, iQoS, p. 170. 



