MAMMALS OF ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN — SETZER 477 



Lepus victoriae microtis Heuglin 



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Lepus microtis Heuglin, Leopoldina, vol. 5, p. 32, June 1865, in Nova Acta Acad. 

 Caes. Leop.-Carol., Halle, p. 24, 1865. ("Lande der Ridj.," Bahr-el-Ghazal.) 



Specimens Examined: Five, from: Ninuile, 1 ; Torit, 1 ; Bar District, 

 2 (BM); Gondokoro. 1 (BM). 



Measurements: Ah adult female from Nimule measures as follows: 

 Total length 507 ; length of tail 90 ; length of hind foot 99 ; length of 

 ear 100; greatest length of skull 88.5; condyloincisive length 75.8; 

 greatest width across zj^gomatic arches 38.9; least interorbital width 

 16.9; breadth of braincase 28.0; median length of nasals 30.6; greatest 

 width of nasals 19.5; length of palatal foramina 22.3; width of palatal 

 foramina 8.7; width of choanae opposite M^ 7.2; alveolar length of 

 upper toothrow 16.7. 



Remarks: The specimen from Nimule is somewhat darker than 

 the one from Torit, but both specimens are darker than any identified 

 as victoriae; both are in color about as in kakumegae but cranially are 

 more nearly like microtis as identified in the collection. 



These specimens are darker than L. c. crawshayi and are, in general, 

 larger in all measurements except in length of tail and length of hind 

 foot. 



Ellerman and Morrison-Scott refer this subspecies to the species 

 europaeus, but from the material available at this time I prefer to 

 use the specific name victoriae since there are pelage and cranial 

 differences which appear to separate these animals from the European 

 and Middle Eastern specimens of europeaus. 



If the few specimens of hares available in the U. S. National Museum 

 are any criterion, then Ellerman and Morrison-Scott are wrong in 

 their assignation of practically all of the hares of Africa to capensis 

 and europaeus since our material does not conform to the standards 

 of occipitonasal length established to separate the two species. 



Order RODENTIA 



Family Sciuridae 



Subfamily Sciurinae 



Tamiscus emini gazellae Thomas 



Figure 4, a 



Tamiscus emini gazellae Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 1, p. 34, January 

 1918. (Meridi (=-Maridi), Bahr-el-Ghazal.) 



Specimens Examined: Six, all in BM, from: Maridi, 4; Bahr-el- 

 Ghazal, 1; Aggar Forest, lat. 4°40' N., long. 29°47' E., 1. 



Measurements: The skull of the type specimen, an adult male for 

 which no external measurements are available, measures as follows: 



