EAST AFRICAN MAMMALS IN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 139 



Family HY^NID^. 



Genus HY^NA Brisson. 



1762. Byxna Brisson, Regn. Anim., ed. 2, p. 13. (E. hyasna.) 

 1868. Euhyxna Falconer, Pal. Mem., vol. 2, p. 464. {E. hyxna.) 

 The striped hyena is rare in the southern parts of British East 

 Africa, but is much more conmion north of Mount Kenia, where a 

 good series of specimens was obtained by the Rainey Expedition. 

 For measurements see tables, pages 141-142. 



HY^NA HY^NA SCHILLINGSI Matschie. 



Plate 2. 



1900. Eyxna (Eyaena) schillingsi Matschie, Sitz.-ber. Ges. nat. Freunde Berlin, 

 p. 55. (West Njiri Swamp,* Massai Plains, German East Africa; type 

 in Berlin Museum.) 

 1910. Eyxna striata schillingsi Roosevelt, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p. 



473; London ed., p. 485. 

 1914. Eyxna hysena schillingsi Roosevelt and Heller, Life-Hist. African 

 Game Anim., vol. 1, p. 254. 

 Specimens. — Two, as follows: 

 British East Africa: Olarakeri, Sotik (Heller). 

 Of the above specimens, one is an old female and one a young 

 male. The adult skin has been mounted for the exhibition series 

 (plate 2, upper figure). This species is evidently much more uncom- 

 mon in the Sotik than is the larger spotted hyena, as these two speci- 

 mens were the only ones collected by the Smithsonian African 

 Expedition, while good series of the spotted species were obtained. 



HYi^INA HY.(ENA BERGERI Matschie. 



Plate 3. 



1910. Eyxna {Eyaena) hienomelas bergeri Matschie, Sitz.-ber. Ges. nat. Freunde 

 Berlin, p. 361. (Elgeyo Escarpment, east of Sirgoi, British East Africa; 

 type in Berlin Museum.) 



1912. Eyxna schillingsi rendilis Lonnberg, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 

 vol. 9, p. 64. January. (Thorn-bush country north of Northern Guaso 

 Nyiro, British East Africa; type in R. Nat. Hist. Mus., Stockholm.) 



1914. Eyxna hyxna bergeri Roosevelt and Heller, Life-Hist. African Game 

 Anim., vol. 1, p. 255. 



Specimens. — Eleven, from the following localities: 

 British East Africa: Archer's Post, Northern Guaso Nyiro, 3 

 (Heller); Lakiundu River, 4 (Heller); Merelle Water, Marsabit 

 Road, 4 (Heller). 



I have seen no specimens of this hyena from the type region, our 

 material all coming from the eastward, near the type locality of 

 Doctor Lonnberg's rendilis. Heller gives the range of iergeri as the 

 "desert region of British East Africa from the southern slopes of 



I Matschie, Sitz.-ber. Ges. nat. Freiinde Berlin, 1910, p. 369. 



