EAST AFRICAN MAMMALS IN THE UNITED 

 STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Part I. INSECTIVOliA, CHIROPTERA, AiND CARNIVORA. 



By N. HOLLISTER, 

 Superintendent, ISfational Zoological Park, Washington. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Many special papers on the extensive collection of mammals from 

 Eastern Equatorial Africa preserved in the United States National 

 MiisfMvm have been published since the accumulation of this material 

 began. These papers have been ^vritten by various specialists, and 

 for the greater part consist of descriptions of new forms or reports 

 on the collections of certain expeditions. No attempt has before 

 been made to furnish a list of all the material in the museum, based 

 on what amounts to monographic work in each group and careful 

 identification of every specimen. Such a list is the basis of the pro- 

 posed work of which the present section is the first part. It is hoped 

 that the entire East African collection can be listed in a similar 

 manner in a bulletin completed in thi^ee parts. Part I consists of the 

 reports on the insectivorous mammals (Order Insectivora), the bats 

 (Order Chiroptera), and the carnivores (Order Garni vora). 



In addition to the lists of specimens carefully determined according 

 to modern standards of systematic mammalogy, pertinent notes 

 which seem worthy of preservation for futiu-e workers on the taxon- 

 omy and life histories of East African mammals are presented under 

 the various generic, specific, and subspecific headings. What it is 

 hoped will prove even more useful to systematic mammalogists are 

 the extensive tables of measurements of individual specimens which 

 have been made as a basis for preliminary work in each group, and 

 which are published with the report. 



The material in the collection, consisting almost wholly of well- 

 prepared specimens with accurate data, has been assembled during 

 many years from numerous sources. While many sections of the 

 area treated are almost unrepresented in the collection by specimens 

 of most groups, the mass of material accumulated from certain large 

 areas far surpasses in numbers and importance that preserved in any 

 other museum. This is the natural result of the efforts of the compe- 



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