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hzveha by their rufous-backed ears and their larger skulls and body 

 size generally. 



The Swahili name for the jackal and the one commonly adopted 

 by the interior tribes now in touch with European civilization is 

 hzveha. Distinctive names for the three species occurring together 

 throughout the country do not appear to be in use among any of the 

 tribes. 



THOS ADUSTUS NOTATUS, new subspecies 

 Loita Side-striped Jackal 



Type from the Loita Plains, British East Africa ; young adult male, 

 number 181486, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; collected by Edmund Heller, April 

 16, 191 1 ; original number 2033. 



Characters. — Thos adustus notatus may be distinguished from all 

 other races by its white underparts, the whole throat, chest and belly 

 being white, the hair of the throat and chest being white to the roots 

 but dark gray basally on the belly. From typical adustus of South 

 Africa it may be further distinguished by its smaller size, the skull 

 being decidedly smaller, by its drab instead of russet ears and the 

 brighter rufous of the dorsal hair basally. It resembles adustus in 

 the light color of its legs which are ochraceous-buff, the foreleg 

 having a black stripe from the shoulder to the knee. The tail is 

 conspicuously tipped by pure white as in adustus. It differs from 

 bzveha of the Kavirondo and Uasin Gishu region by its light under- 

 parts, light colored legs, white tipped tail and distinctiveness of the 

 black side stripe. The tail is considerably longer than in hzveha but 

 the general body size is the same. 



The flesh measurements of the type were : head and body, 715 mm. ; 

 tail, 390; hindfoot, 165 ; ear from notch, 80. Skull: condylo-incisive 

 length, 152; greatest length, 157 ; zygomatic breadth, 80; interorbital 

 width, 26.5 ; postorbital width, 30.5 ; nasals, 14X 58 ; length of upper 

 cheek teeth to outer edge of canine, 70; length of upper carnasial, 

 13.9 ; width of mesopterygoid fossa, 14.8 ; length of palate, 79. Skull 

 somewhat immature with distinct sutures and lacking a sagittal crest. 



Besides the type there is in the National Museum another adult 

 male from the Loita Plains which resembles the type closely in color 

 and an immature female from the same locality which shows a 

 fulvous wash on the underparts, which may be a sexual color dififer- 

 ence rather than individual in character. The type has been com- 

 pared with two adult male specimens from south of the Zambesi 

 River representing typical adustus. 



