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pretty clearly traces of these parts in the skull of a very 

 adult specimen (perhaps that figured in the Faune). 



Epomophorus compius and Epomophorus gambianus. 



In a small collection of Mammals and Birds offered to 

 me for sale and made by Mr. Bohndorff in Niam-Niam- 

 land, central Africa, I found specimens of the above na- 

 med species. The locality is very interesting as it gives 

 us new facts to demonstrate the wide distribution of a 

 large number of species of Mammals over Africa. 



Epomophorus comptus described by Allen after a speci- 

 men collected by Duchaillu in Western Africa is repre- 

 sented in the British Museum by a single (see Dobson's 

 Catalogue) specimen from Gaboon ; as far as 1 am aware 

 these two individuals were the only hitherto known. It is 

 distinguished from all the other Epomophori by its extra- 

 ordinarily developed second phalanx of the third finger , this 

 phalanx being longer than the metacarpal bone of the same 

 finger. The color and distribution of the fur have been very 

 well described by Allen. The abdomen in our adult female 

 presents a large yellowish white patch. 



N. B. The above named collection Bohndorff's contained 

 also specimens belonging to the following species: Mega- 

 derma frons , Herpestes leucurus , Sciurus stangeri and Sciu- 

 rus rufo-hrachiatus. That the first and second species should 

 live in Niam-Niam-land was to expect, the appearence 

 however of the two AScmrws-species in that country is very 

 interesting, for up to this time they only have been ob- 

 served on the West-coast of Africa: cf. my Monograph of 

 the African Squirrels in the Notes from the Leyden Mu- 

 seum, 1882. 



Paradoxurus stigmaticus Temminck. 



This species seems to be very rare in the zoological col- 

 lections and hitherto recorded merely from one locality , 



Notes from tlie Leyden IMuseum , "Vol. "VII, 



