EAST AFRICAN MAMMALS IN NATIONAL. MUSEUM. 169' 



size of the skull. As usual in the genus the largest specimens are 

 old females. 



LEPUS VICTORIA EAKUMEGiS HeUer. 



Plate 44 



1910. Lepus victorix Roosevelt, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., pp. 473, 479; 



London ed., pp. 485, 491. (Part.) 

 1912. Lepus kakumegx Heller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 59, No. 16, p. 19. 



July 5. (Lukosa River, Kakumega Forest, British East Africa; type in 



U. S. Nat. Mus.) 



Specimens. — Four, from locaUties as follows : 



British East 4frica: Guas Ngishu Plateau, 1 odd skull (Heller); 

 Lukosa River, 1 (Heller); Sirgoit Lake, 2, including 1 odd skull 

 (Heller). 



A dark, or rather more richly colored race of Lepus victorix, with 

 much shorter ears. The Sirgoit Lake skin is somewhat intermediate 

 between this form and typical victorix, but clearly goes best with 

 Tcakumegx. This is probably a connectant subspecies between 

 victorix and microtis. Hares from Uganda and the upper Nile are 

 greatly needed in collections. 



LEPUS MICROTIS Heuglin. 



1865. Lepus microtis Heuglin, Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. Leop., vol. 32, pt. 1, p. 32. 

 (Lat. 6°-8° N., long. 29°-31° E., Bahr-el-Gazal, Sudan.) 



Specimen. — One head with skull from — 



Uganda: Lagos, near Ledgus, 1 (Loring). 



The status of Lepus microtis Heuglin has never been determined, 

 but there seems little reason to suspect that it represents anything 

 except the short-eared forest hare of the upper Nile, which doubtless 

 intergrades through Tcakumegx into Lepus victorix. The single 

 specimen in the collection, imperfect as it is, helps little to settle the 

 question except that it proves the presence of a hare of this type in 

 extreme northwestern Uganda. The Ledgus specimen may not 

 represent typical microtis, but the form represented will doubtless 

 prove nearer to that subspecies than to the obviously related Lepus 

 victorix Jcakumegx. 



Order TUBULIDENTATA. 



Family ORYCTEROPID^. 



Genus ORYCTEROPUS Geofifroy. 



1796. Orycteropus Geofpegy, Mag. Encycl., vol. 2, p. 290. (0. a/er.) 



The aard-vark is rarely collected by East African travelers, and 

 no specimens were brought home by either of the larger expeditions. 



