MAMMALS OF ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN — SETZER 563 



Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii (Fitzingcr) 



Cynailurus soemmeringii Fitzinger, Sitzb. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat., 



vol. 17, pt. 2, p. 245, 1855. (Steppes of Kababish, south of Bajuda Desert, 



Kordofan.) 

 Felis megabalica Heuglin, Leopoldina, Aintliche Organ K. Leop. -Carol. Deutsch. 



Akad. Naturf., vol. 4, No. 3, p. 23. May, 1863. (West bank of Bahr-el- 



Abiad.) 

 Acinonyx limgneri Hilzheimer, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, p. 285, 1913. 



(Kordofan.) 



Specimen Examined: One, from Ed Dueim. 



Kemarks: The specimen above is the only specimen available to 

 me from the Sudan. It is a skin without a skull and external meas- 

 urements. 



Order TUBULIDENTATA 



Family Orycteropodidae 



Genus Orycteropus Geoffroy 



No specimens of the aardvark have been examined. Two sub- 

 species, Orycteropus afer aefhiopicus Sundevall from the Bahr-el- 

 Abiad and Orycteropus afer kordofanicus Rothschild from Kordofan 

 have been described. 



Apparently big game hunters do not call these animals game, and 

 the mamm.al collector is more interested in the rodents, insectivores, 

 and bats. Thus, extremely few specimens of aardvarks are known in 

 museum collections. 



Order PROBOSCIDEA 



Family Elephantidae 



Subfamily Elephautinae 



Loxodonta africana oxyotis (Matschie) 



Elephas (Loxodonta) oxyotis Matschie, Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, p. 196, 

 1900. (Upper Atbara River.) 



Specimens Examined: One, in BM, from White Nile. 



Remarks: The elephant was apparently widespread in the southern 

 half of the Sudan in the past. However, at the present time popula- 

 tions seem to be quite local, hi some places disappearing but in other 

 places increasing in numbers. 



For a resume of the elephant in the Sudan see in the section on 

 "The Elephant in the Sudan" by the late Maj. W. Barker, pages 

 68-79 in "The Elephant in East Central Africa, a Monograph," 

 published by Rowland Ward, Ltd., 1953. 



