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BULLETIN 99, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



tent field naturalists who accompanied the larger and more extensive 

 expeditions, and the foresight and energy of the museum authorities 

 in the organization and maintenance of the work. 



GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITS. 



East Africa, or rather Eastern Equatorial Africa, in the present 

 connection includes all the area indicated in figure 1. This territory 



Fig. 1.— Map of Africa with shaded aeea sHowiyo the begion covered by this rkpoet. 



is divided politically among several nations. In listing specimens the 

 following major divisions are regularly used in the sequence indi- 

 cated: Eritrea, French Somali, British Somali, Sudan, Abyssinia, 

 Lado, Uganda, Italian Somali, British East Africa, Zanzibar, German 

 East Africa. 



