114 BULLETIN m, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



midway between the two lakes, which, with others, lie between 7^ 

 and 8° north latitude and between 38° and 39° longitude east. 

 Altitude, 4,500 to 5,000 feet." 



MELLIVORA SAGULATA Holiister. 



Plates 26, 27. 



1892. Mellivora capensis True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 15, p. 455. (Not 

 of Schreber.) 



1910. Mellivora raiel Roosevelt, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p. 473; Lon- 

 don ed., p. 485. (Not of Sparrman.) 



1910, Mellivora sagidata Hollistee, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 56, No. 13, 

 p. 2. (Mount Kilimanjaro, German East Africa; type in U. S. Nat. Mus.) 



Specimens. — Four, from localities as follows: 



British East Africa: Mau Hills, 15 miles north of Ravine 

 Station, 1 (K. Roosevelt); Nairobi, 2 (HeUer, Turner). 



German East Africa: Mount Kilimanjaro, 5, 000 feet altitude, 1 

 (Abbott). 



Variations in color, which have been used in differentiating forms 

 of honey-badgei"s, arc probably of less importance than skuU char- 

 acters. There appears to be considerable seasonal or pelage differ- 

 ence in the intensity of the white side stripe; and color of mantle 

 is perhaps largely influenced by season, wear, or stain from soil. AU 

 the recognizable forms will doubtless prove to be merely geographic 

 races of the Cape ai^ecies, Mellivora capensis.^ 



Genu.s ICTONYX Kaup. 



1835, Ictonyx Kaup, Das Thierreich, vol. 1, p. 352. (/, striatus.f 



1906, Ictonyx Howell, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 19, p. 46, February26. 



A single form of the striped muishond is included in the collection. 

 Other races have been named from the Upper Nile, Sudan, and 

 Abyssinia, 



ICTONYX STRIATUS ALBESCENS HeHer. 



PJato 11, figs. 3, 4, 5. 



1913. Ictonyx capensis albescens Heller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 

 13, p. 13. September 16, (Mount Lololokwi, British East Africa; type 

 in U. S. Nat, Mus.) 



Speoimens. — Four, from localities as follows: 

 British East Africa: Kapiti, i (Johnston); Mount Lololokwi, 1 

 (Heller); Nairobi, 1 (Klein); Ulukenia Hills, 1 (Loring). 



• This name has priority over Af. ratel;se6 Holiister, Proc. Biol. See. Washington, vol. 25, p. 96. May 

 i, 1912. 



« Bradupuj ftriatu^ Perry, Arcana or The Museum of Natural History, part 11, pi. [11] and t«xt. No- 

 vember, 1810. See HoUistor, Proc, Biol. Soo. Washington, vol. 28, p. 184. November 26, 1915. 



