PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



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Vol. 106 Washington : 1956 No. 3377 



MAMMALS OF THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN 



By Henry W. Setzer 



Introduction 



The discovery of factors of medical importance in mammals of the 

 southern Anglo -Egyptian Sudan prompted this study of their taxon- 

 omy, distribution, and zoogeography. 



The mammalian hosts obtained on a preliminary investigation in 

 1948 and subsequent studies in 1949-1950 form the basis of the present 

 report. The material was obtamed by personnel of U. S. Naval 

 Medical Research Unit Number Three, and it currently bears Chicago 

 Natural History Museum catalog numbers. This collection is to be 

 divided equally between the Chicago Museum and the United States 

 National Aluseum. Thus, unless otherwise indicated, specimens from 

 localities bearing no museum abbreviation in the "specimens ex- 

 amined" sections of the accounts of species are in the above collection. 

 Specimens from localities such as Bor, Gondokoro, Khartoum, Lake 

 No, and Mongalla, which bear no museum designation, are in the 

 U. S. National Museum from previous African explorations. Locali- 



1 This paper is based upon studies of the material collected by U. S. Naval Medical Research Unit 

 Number Three. The author is a collaborator with this research group. 



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