3. DENDROnYRAX. 293 



with a central white dorsal streak." — A. Smith. Young — fur very- 

 soft, long, abundant, dark black-grey, varied with paler grey ; lips, 

 chin, throat, underside of body, and inner sides of limbs white. 

 Skull ? 



Hyrax arboreus, A. Smith, Linn. Trans, xv. p. 468 ; Peters, Mossamb. 



p. 182 ? (not Blainville) ; Kirk, P. Z. S. 18G4, p. 656 ? 

 Dendrohyrax arboreus, Gray, Ann. ^- Mag. N. II. ser. 4. i. p. 49. 



Hah. South Africa {A. Smith): a young specimen with milk- 

 canines. South Africa, from Sir Andrew Smith. Mossambique, Tetc 

 {Peters, Kirk). 



There is no adult sjiecimen of this species in the British Museum ; 

 there is a young specimen, with the milk-teeth, received from Sir 

 Andrew Smith, the original describer of the species. It is so dif- 

 ferent from the j'oung specimen of the West-African species received 

 from M. Verreaux, which agrees with the adult tropical species de- 

 sciibed by Mr. Fraser, in the British-Museum collection, that there 

 can be no doubt that the South- and West- African species are dis- 

 tinct, though the French zoologists and osteologists have confounded 

 them. 



The young specimen is at once known from the young of D. dor- 

 salis by the paler colour of the fur, the want of the dark dorsal 

 streak, and the whiteness of the under surface. 



Dr. Peters, in his ' Mammalia of Mossambique,' says that D. 

 arboreus is the only species of Hyrax he found in Mozambique. It 

 occurs near the capital of Mozambique, on the coast, and at Tete in 

 the interior, where it is called Mbira. 



It would be intei'esting to know if this is the same as //. dorsuJis. 

 as the latter occurs at Ashantee. 



Common on rockj- hillsides, living in colonies. Caught by spring- 

 traps ; flesh good to eat (Kirk, P. Z. S. 1864). 



Dr. Peters, in a note to me respecting the Hi/races mentioned in 

 his ' Mammalia of Mossambique,' observes, " It may be that there 

 arc two species of Hyrax in Mossambique — one on the coast, and 

 the other in the interior. From the coast I oidy got a female spe- 

 cimen : the skull of this species shows small grinders compared with 

 those of H. syriacus, and seven in number." See further observa- 

 tions on this skull under Euhyra.v ahyssinicus. " The other spe- 

 cimen from the interior, the Camera Hills near Tete, agrees perfectly 

 ■w'ith the //. arboreus from the Cape." This species is easily to be 

 distinguished by its soft fur and want of rusty colour ; the hairs of 

 the underside are wliite, and brownish grey at the base. 



b. Orbit incomplete. IleterohjTax. — Gray, I. c. p. 50. 

 3. Dendrohyrax Blainvillii. 



Dt'iulrohyrax I'lainvillii, Gray, I. c. p. 50. 



An adult skuU in the British Museum (Xo. 724 e), without its 

 lower jaw, was received from the Zoological Society without any 

 habitat or history attached to it. It has small, more cquid-sized 



