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Kaimosi is in the black phase and the specimen from Lukoso Kiver 

 is colored much like the grizzled Mungos sang-uincxis ihe^. 

 For measurements see page 128. 



MUNGOS SANGUINEUS IBE^. Wroughton. 



1892. Herpestes graciln True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 15, p. 45J. (Not of 



ROppell.) 

 1907. Mungos sanguineus ihess. Wroughton, Ana. and Mag. Nat. Hist., sur. 7, 



voL 20, p. 118. August. (Fort Hall, British East Africa; tj-pe in British 



Museum.) 



1910. Mungos sangxdenus ibex Roosevelt, African Game Trails. Amor. nd. . 



p. 473; London ed., p. 485. (Part.) 



Specimens. — Nine, from the following localities : 



British East Africa: Mtoto Andei, 1 (Heller); Plains oast of 

 Kilimanjaro, 1 (Abbott); Sir Alfred Pease's Farm, Kitanga, 2 

 (Meams); Southern Guaso Nyiro River, 2 (Mearns, Loring); Ulu- 

 kenia HiUs, 2 (Loring); Voi, 1 (Heller). 



A'female collected by Mearns at Kitanga, May 8, was not pregnant; 

 there were two pairs of mammae. Abbott notes of the female taken 

 east of Kilimanjaro in June that the mammae contained milk. 



The nine skins of this form are quite uniform in color, with the 

 exception of one of the specimens from the Southern Guaso Nyiro 

 River. This latter skin is much more yellowish, or pale ochraceous, 

 than the average, and is particularly bright on the back, legs, and 

 tail. The second specimen from the same locality is in all respects 

 normal. There is very little tendency toward melanism ; only a single 

 skin, from Sir Alfred Pease's Farm, shows a dejEinite blackish area 

 along the back, and this is rather indistinct. 



The mungoose described by Matscliie as Calogale marx ^ must be 

 very close indeed to ihese; the type-locahty, Ngare Mdusse (a southern 

 tributary of the Mara River), is near the German East African boun- 

 bary only a short distance south of our Guaso Nyiro locality. The 

 Calogale elegans, of the same author,^ from Fort Smith, near Nairobi , 

 would seem to be the same form, also. 



MUNGOS SANGUINEUS ORESTES Htller. 



Plat5 33. 



1911. Mungos sanguineus orestes Heller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 56, No. 17, 



p. 15. February 28. (West elopo of Mount Kenia, altitude 8,500 feet; 

 type in U. S. Nat. Mus.) 



Specimens. — Seven, as follows : 



British East Africa: West slope of Mount Kenia (Meanis, Lor- 

 ing). 



Mearns records the color of the iris in this species as "yeUow- 

 brown." The Kenia race of Mungos sanguineus is a dark-colored 

 subspecies. Of the seven skins at hand five are quite blackish, and 



« SlU.-ber. Ges. nat. Freunde Berlin, p. 453. December, 1914. « Idem, p. 456. 



