126 BULLETIN 99, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



the remaining two are darker brown, less grayish, than any skin of 

 M. s. ihese in the collection. The size and characters of the skull are 

 as in ihese. 



MUNGOS SANGUINEUS RENDILIS LSimberg. 



1912. Mungos sanguineus rendilis Lonnberg, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl.. 

 vol. 48, No. 5, p. 66. (Northern bank of Northern Guaso Nyiro River, 

 below Chanler Falls, British East Africa; type in R. Nat. Hist. Mus., 

 Stockholm.) 



Specimens. — Four, from locahties as follows: 



British East Afkica: Longaya Water. Marsabit Road, 1 (Hel- 

 ler); Merelle Water, Marsabit Road, 1 (Heller); Mount Gargues, 1 

 (Heller); Mount Lololokwi, 1 (Heller). 



The stomach of the Mount Gargues specimen contained a green 

 snake and a small bird. 



The four skins from north of Mount Kenia are decidedly more pale 

 buffy , less graj^ish, than the series from south of Kenia. representing 

 true ihese; they are abo much more finely vermiculated. The female 

 skull of this form is proportionally much less in size, compared with 

 male skulk, than in the related races of this mungoose. 



For measurements of specimens see page 129. 



MUNGOS ICHNEUMON FUNESTUS Osgood. 



1892. Eerpestes caffer True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 15, p. 452. (Not o« 



Gmelin; specimen from Kilimanjaro.) 

 1910. Mungos ichneumon funestus Osgood, Field Mus., Zool. Ser., vol. 10, No. 3, 



p. 17. April. (Naivasha, British East Africa; type in Field Mua. Nat. 



Hist., Chicago.) 



Spedraens. — Three, from locahties as follows: 



British East Africa: Kaimosi, 1 (Heller); Nairobi, 1 (Heller). 



German East Africa: Mount Kihmanjaro, 1 (Abbott). 



Genus ATILAX GeofFroy and Cuvier. 



1826. Atilax Geopfroy and Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm., vol. 5, 11 vr. 54, p. [2]. 

 {A. paludinosus.) 

 The water mungooses recently have been given formal generic 

 distinction by Pocock in liis paper On the External Characters of the 

 Mongooses.^ 



For measurements of specimens see page 129. 



ATILAX PALUDINOSUS ROBUSTUS (Gray). 



1865. Athylaxrobustus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, p. 558. (White Nile; 

 type in British Museum.) 

 Specimen. — One. as follows: 



British East Africa: Guas Ngishu Plateau (White). 

 This specimen of the water mungoose is clearly of a form distinct 

 from the subspecies found in the Taita Hills and Kihmanjaro regions. 



1 Proc. Zool. Soe. London, p. 349. June, lOlfi. 



