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BULLETIN 99, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Family PROTELID^. 



Genus PROTELES Geoffroy. 



1824. Proteles Geoffroy, Mem. Mus. Hist. 

 Nat., Paris, vol. 11, p. 355. (P. 

 cristatus.) 



In addition to the subspecies of the 

 aard-wolf listed l)elow, others have 

 been described from Soraoliland (Pro- 

 teles cristatus septentrionalis Roths- 

 child)^ and from Nubia (P. c. pallidlor 

 Cabrera). 2 



PROTELES CRISTATUS TERMES Heller. 



Plate 37, fig. 3; plate 38, fig. 3. 



1910. Proteles^ cristatus septentrionalis Roose- 

 velt , African Game Trails, Amer. 

 ed., p. 473; London ed., p. 485. 

 (Not of Rothschild.) 



1913. Proteles cristatus termesH.ELLER, Smith- 

 sonian Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 13, 

 p. 9. September 16. (Kabalolot 

 Hill, headwaters of the Amala 

 River, west of the Loita Plains, 

 British East Africa; type in U. S. 

 Nat. Mus.) 



Specimens. —Four, from tlie following 

 localities : 



British East Africa: Kabalolot 

 Hill, Sotik, 1 (Heller) ; Northern Guaso 

 Nyiro River, near Neuman's Boma, 1 

 (K. Roosevelt); Telek River, Sotiic, 1 

 (Johnston) ; Ulukenia Hills, I (Loring). 



Heller records the stomach contents 

 of the ty])e-specimen as a ''mass of 

 termites." In the origin^il description 

 of termes he refers the specimen from 

 Northern Guaso Nyiro to this ra ce with 

 the remarks that it is ''much more 

 fulvous than those from the higher 

 plateau of the Loita " and also notes that 

 "in the lack of grayish coloration and 

 the suppression of the black areas this 

 form ap])roaches the Somaliland race."^ 



For measm'ements see table. 



1 Nov. Zool., vol. 9, p. 443. 1902. 



« Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 6, p. 464. 1910. 

 3 Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 13, p. 9. Septem- 

 Ijer 16, 1913. 



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