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Procavia habessinica slatini Sassi 

 Figure 9,c 



Procavia slatini Sassi, Sitzb. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat., vol. 115, sect. 1, 

 pt. 6, p. 1002, June 1906. (Hills on the White Nile, south of Gondokoro, 

 lat. 5° N.) 



Specimens Examined: Five, all in BM, from: Moru district, 2; 

 Rejaf, 1; Uvolo, 1; Juba, 1. 



Measurements: A young adult female from the Moru district 

 measures as follows: length of head and body 498; length of hind foot 

 67; length of ear 30; cond3loincisive length of skull 86.4; crown length 

 of upper tootlu-ow 40.7; least postorbital width 21.4; least interorbital 

 width 24.4; greatest width across zygomatic arches 49.6; length of 

 nasals 22.4. 



Remarks: In general, slatini is the darkest of the Procavia to be 

 found in the Sudan. The dorsal spot, imlike that in the next darkest 

 kind, marrensis, is quite noticeable but is still not so pronounced as in 

 either ehnen or rujiceps. 



The skulls of slatini differ from P. h. butleri only in the smaller size 

 of the auditory bullae, the shorter nasals, and the narrower inter- 

 orbitum. 



G. M, Allen (1939, p. 452) listed slatini as a subspecies of rujiceps. 

 I feel, after a close study of the specimens in the British Museum, that 

 these animals are referable to Procavia habessinica because of the lack 

 of frontal inflation, the massiveness of the cheekteeth, and the lateral 

 curving of the upper incisors. 



Procavia rujiceps ebneri Wettstein 



Figure d,d 



Procavia (Procavia) ebneri Wettstein, Anz. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat., 

 vol. 53; p. 162, 1916. (Talodi, Kordofan.) 



Specimens Examined: Seven, all in BM, from: Agageli Wells, 5; 

 Kaga Hills, 1 ; Nuba Mountains, 1. 



Measurements: An adult female from Agageh Wells measm-es as 

 follows: Length of head and body 473; length of hind foot 55; length 

 of ear 27; condyloincisive length of skull 84.1; crown length of upper 

 toothrow 33.4; least postorbital width 20.0; least interorbital width 

 24.7; greatest width across zygomatic arches 48.8; length of nasals 

 21.2. 



Remarks: These animals ai-e darker in color than rujiceps but not so 

 dark as in typical matrensis. The dorsal spot is large and orange 

 colored, but not so large as in rujiceps and not so obscured as in mar- 

 rensis. 



