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TH08 MESOMEI^S ELGONi« Heller. 



Plates 18, 19. 



1914. Tho» me6Q)iielm elgonae Heller, Smitheonian Misc. Coll., vol. 63, No. 7, 

 p. 6. June 24. (Guas N?iehu Plateau, British East Africa; type in 



U. S. Nat. Mus.) 



Specimens. — ^Ten, as follows: 



British East Africa: Guas Ngishu Tlateau (While, Heller, 

 K. Ixoosevelt). 



THOS MESOMELAS MCMILLANI Heller. 



Platee20, 21. 



189*2. Canu mssomelas True, Proc, U. S. Nat. Mm., vol. 15.. p. 455, {Taveta; 



not of Schreber.) 

 1914. Thos vusomelas mcmillani Heller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 63, No. 



7, p. 6. June 24. (Mtoto Andei, British Eaat Africa; type in U. 8. 



Nat. Mus.) 



Specim em. —Thiriy-nine,, from the following localities: 

 British East Africa: Archer's Post, 1 (Heller); Kabalolot 

 Hill, Sotik, 3 (Pleller); Koya Water, Marsabit Road, 2 (Heller); 

 Lakiundu River, 6 (Rainey, Heller) ; Lime Springs, Sotik, 3 (Rainey) ; 

 Loita Plains, 1 (Heller) ; Merelle Water, 7 (Heller) ; Mtoto Andei, 1 

 (Heller); Southern Guaso Nyiro River, 4 (Mearns, Heller); Taveta, 

 1 (Abbott) ; Telek River, Sotik, o (Heller, Rainey) ; Ulukenia Hills. 

 1 (Loring). 

 German East Africa: Mount Kilimanjaro, 1, mounted (Abbott.) 



This race is confined to the coast drainage and the lower parts of the Rift Valley 

 and is the only jackal which is found in the low desert nyika countrv' (Heller). 



Genus LYCAON Gray. 



1827. Lycaon (Brooks) Gray, Griffith's Cuvier, vol. 6, p. 151. {L. picttis.) 

 1829. Cynhysena Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat., vol. 59, p. 454. (L. picttis.) 

 1842. Hyenoides Boitard, Jardin Plantes, p. 163. (L. pictui.) 

 1842. Kynos R{)ppell, Mus. Senckenberg, vol. 3, p. 163. (Z-. pktus.) 



The hunting dog, the largest of the African Canidse, is related 

 closely to the genus Cuon of Asia, but is distinguished by having only 

 four toes on each foot and by the presence of an additional lower 

 molar tooth. A subspecies described from British Somaliland, 

 Lycaon jndus somxdicus Thomas, is not represented in our collection. 



I have seen a reference to a paper by Dr. Paul Matschie,^ in which 

 26 new forms of Lycaon are said to be described. This publication 

 is not available in America since the beginning of the war in Europe.' 



> MJtteilungen liber Hyauenhunde, Sitz.-Ber. Ges. nat. Freunde Berlin, 1915, pp. 309-391. 



s It is possible that other papers dealing with groups Included In this report and published by German 

 authors since the beginning of the war have not been seen, as the receipt of German scientiflc pwblio*- 

 tlons has been for the past three years very irregular or even entirely discontinued. 



