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trust (see f.i, Reuvens’ die Myowidae oder Schläfer, 1890, 
p- 35), I do not set much value upon his observations 
concerning our monkey and I think it wise to accept them 
only under protest. So that we are as far as in 1876 and 
know nothing about the locality where C. cynosurus is 
living. It therefore is of great scientific value to know 
that v. d. Kellen collected (August 23, 1891) a nearly 
adult male-specimen, agreeing exactly with the other in- 
dividuals of this very characteristic species in our collec- 
tion. Senegambia may be the habitat too of it or not, we 
have here the proof that it inhabits South-West-Africa !. 
The skull of this specimen is figured on plate 4. 
Iris lightbrown (v. d. Kellen MS.). 
Vulpes mesomelas Schreber. 
One specimen. 
According to Mivart’s Monograph of the Canidae, 1890, 
p. 47, the habitat of this very strongly marked black- 
backed Jackal is Southern Africa and Abyssinia. A figure 
of the skull of v. d. Kellen’s adult specimen on plate 5. 
Genetta felina Thunberg. 
An adult female-specimen, March 20, 1891. Iris brown 
(v. d. Kellen MS.). 
Skull of this specimen on plate 6. 
Ratelus leuconotus Sclater. 
A single apparently adult specimen, without skull. 
The type of this very rare species has been described 
and figured by Sclater (P. Z. S. L. 1867, p. 98, pl. 8): 
it had been obtained by the Zoological Society on 3rd Au- 
gust 1866 from a dealer in Liverpool, who stated that 
he had received it by the West-African Mail. It therefore 
1) In the Catalogue of the bones of Mammalia in the collection of the 
British Museum, 1862, p. 11, there are enumerated two skulls (a and 4) as 
belonging to C. eyzosurus from India. This cannot be correct. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
