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Measurements: An adult male from the Jebel Maria measures as 

 follows: Length of head and body 290; length of tail 275; length of hind 

 foot 60; length of ear 25; greatest length of skull 62.9; condyloincisive 

 length 60.9; greatest width across zygomatic arches 29.0; least 

 postorbital width 13.8; least interorbital mdth 10.7; breadth of brain- 

 case 25.1 ; length of auditory bullae 14.3. 



Remarks: The mongoose here referred to Herpestes has long been 

 Imown by the generic name Myonax. I am following the usage of 

 Ellerman, Morrison-Scott, and Hayman (1953) in referring this 

 species to the genus Herpestes. 



Dologale dybowskii (Pousargues) 



Crossarchus dybowskii Pousargues, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 18, p. 51, 1893; 



Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, vol. 3, No. 6, p. 121, 1894. (Ubangi, 



Belgian Congo.) 

 Herpestes nigripes Kershaw, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 13, p. 22, January 



1924. (Moru District, Mongalla.) 



Specimens Examined: Four, from: Khartoum, 1 (BM); Issore, 

 Imatong Mountains, 1 (BM); Rejaf District, Mongalla Province, 1 

 (BM);Torit, 1. 



Measurements: A young adult female from Rejaf District measures 

 as follows: Length of head and body 215; length of tail 164; length of 

 hind foot 54; length of ear 21; greatest length of skull 53.7; condy- 

 loincisive length 51.8; gi-eatest width across zygomatic arches 27.7; 

 least postorbital width 12.6; least interorbital width 9.5; breadth of 

 braincase 25.5; length of auditory bullae 12.0. 



Remarks: The specimen from Torit was obtained in savanna 

 country. Apparently little is known concerning the habits or distri- 

 bution of this small mongoose. 



Miingos mungo gothneh (Heuglin and Fitzinger) 



Herpestes gothneh Heuglin and Fitzinger, Sitzb. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.- 



Nat., vol. 54, sec. 1, p. 560, 1866. 

 Herpestes leucos ethicus Heuglin and Fitzinger, Sitzb. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.- 



Nat., vol. 54, sec. 1, p. 561 1866. (Junction of the Sobat and Bahr-el-Abiad.) 



Specimens Examined : Four, from : White Nile, 2 (BM) ; Rejaf Dis- 

 trict, 1 (BM); Torit, 1. 



Remarks: Allen (1939, p. 218) lists Herpestes adailensis Heuglin 

 1861 as a synonym of gothneh. This is apparently in error and 

 adailensis should be referred to M. m. zebra Riippell, 1835, from the 

 lowlands of Kulla and Massawa, Eritrea. In Petermann's Geo- 

 gi-aphische Mittheilungen, (1861, p. 17), Heughn states that the back 

 is striped as in H. zebra and cites the "Adail-Kiiste unfern Tedjura" 

 as the locality from which he examined an old male. In view of the 



