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I can add no information regarding the status of this form beyond 

 what is given in the original diagnosis. The type-specimen, a rather 

 young adult female, is considerably paler, more bufFy, than any 

 specimen of Tatera n. nyama in the collection, and the form will 

 doubtless stand as a color subspecies of the mcina-nigricauda group. 



TATERA LIODON DUNDASI Wroughton. 



1909. Tatera dundasi Wroughton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 4, p. 539. 

 December. (Kirui, Mount Elgon, British East Africa; type in British 

 Museum.) 



Specimens. — ^Two, as follows: 



British East Africa: Nzoia River, Guas Ngishu Plateau (Heller). 



TATERA LIODON SMITHI Wroughton. 



1909. Tatera smithi Wroughton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 3, p. 249. 



March. (Mubende, Unyoro, Uganda, type in British Museum.) 



Spedrnens. — Fifteen, from localities as follows: 

 Uganda: Kikandwa, 1 (Loring); Kikonda, 5 (Loring); Kisimbiri, 

 2 (Loring); Kisingo, 3 (Loring): Lialo, 1 (Loring). 

 British East Africa: Kaimosi, 3 (Heller). 

 Closely related to dundasi. 



TATERA NIGRITA Wroughton. 



1906. Tatera nigrila Wroughton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 17, p. 491. 

 May. (Masindi, Unyoro, Uganda, type in British Museum.) 



1910. Tatera nigrita Roosevelt, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p. 472; London 



ed.,p. 484. 



Specimen. — One, as follows: 



Uganda: Kisimbiri (Loring). 



Specimens of this small, dark Tatera might easily be mistaken for 

 the young of the larger Tatera liodon smithi, which occurs at the same 

 localities. 



TATERA MACROPUS (Heuglln). 



1864. Merianes macropus Heugwn, Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Car. Germ. Nat. 

 Cm"., Dresden, vol. 31, xVrticle 7, p. 9. (Between Djur and Kosanga 

 Rivers, Bongo, Sudan.) 



Specimens. — Eight, as follows: 



Lado: Hhino Camp, 1 skull onl}^ (Loring). 



Uganda: Ledgus, 1 (Loring); Lombeki River, 1 (Loring); Ni- 

 mule, 5, including 1 in alcohol (Heller, Loring). 



These specimens have been compared in London by Heller with 

 skins from Bor, Sudan, identified as Taiera macropus. The form 

 represented is in color very much like Tatera liodon smitM from farther 

 south in Uganda, but is less dark . The skulls are much as in smithi, 

 but have decidedly lighter colored incisors which show deeper grooves 

 on the face than usual in smithi. 



