MAMMALS OF ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN — SETZER 473 



Measurements of the Type Specimen: Total length 510; length 

 of tail 52; length of hind foot 103; length of ear from crown 85; length 

 of ear from notch 65; greatest length of skull 87.1; condyloincisive 

 length 76.6; greatest width across zygomatic arches 41.2; least inter- 

 orbital width 19.4; breadth of braincase 30.6; median length of nasals 

 29.6; greatest width of nasals 17.3; length of palatal foramina 21.6; 

 greatest width of palatal foramina 9.2; width of choanae opposite M^ 

 6.5; alveolar length of upper molar series 15.8. 



Comparisons: From Poelagus marjorita marjorita, P. m. oweni 

 differs in: Color generally darker, bell}^ with a transverse band of 

 color same as dorsum separating anterior and posterioi- portions. The 

 skull is different in that the nasals are shorter, braincase narrower, and 

 the auditory bullae are decidedly smaller. 



P. 771. oweni differs from P. m. larkeni in darker dorsal color and by 

 the presence of the colored transverse band on the belly. The skull 

 has the braincase broader, the nasals generally narrower, the width 

 of the choanae opposite AP greater, and the width across the zygo- 

 matic arches greater. 



Remarks: The rabbits taken in the eastern part of Equatoria 

 Province have all come from the Imatong Mountams or the immediate 

 vicinity and all were taken in forest-type habitat. It is very probable 

 that when the Didinga and Dongotona Mountains are better known 

 this animal will be found to inhabit them as well. 



Lepiis capensis crawshayi De Winton 



Figure d,d 



Lepus crawshayi De Winton, Proc. ZooL Soc. London, p. 416, August 1, 1899. 

 (Kitwi, east of Athi River and northeast of Machakos, Kenya Colony.) 



Specimens Examined: Six, from: Ikoto, 2; Katire, 2; Nagichot, 2 

 (MCZ). 



Remarks: In a series of 10 adult specimens from the Kapiti Plains, 

 British East Africa, two adult skulls measure 85.8 and 86.6 mm. in 

 occipitonasal length while the other eight adults are 85 mm. or less. 

 Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951, p. 427) give 85 mm. or less for 

 occipitonasal length for hares of the capensis complex south of the 

 Sahara. It seems then, on the basis of the measurements above, that 

 crawshayi belongs to the capensis group and not with europaeus, where 

 it has been placed by the above authors. 



Of the four specimens here referred to crawshayi, only one is adult, 

 and in that one the skull is missing. The skin, however, agrees in 

 detail with those specimens in the collection from British East Africa 

 and identified as crawshayi. 



