KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 48, N:0 5. 39 
At Meru boma I succeeded in shooting a fine male Tumbili just as it intended 
to make a raid in a shamba with Pennisetum. 
Papio anubis subsp.? 
(Conf. Anpersson: Zool. of Egypt. Mammalia p. 34.) 
Dark Baboons of the anubis-group were seen by me for the first time at Me 
Naugktons farm not far from Nairobi, where they were said to do much damage in 
the farm, and especially destroy the crop of sweet potatoes and potatoes. 
Similar Baboons were also common around Escarpment station where the Kikuy- 
us complained of their ravages in the shambas. In both these places they occurred 
in herds which took their refuge to thick bush and forest as soon as they suspected 
any danger. The angry bark of the old males warned the herd to continue the flight. 
Now and then a big male was seen at some safe distance ascend a small tree or a 
stump to look round, but they always jumped down and ran away in good time. 
They avoided very carefully to come within range for the shotgun which was the 
only weapon I had with me then. They are also very tenacious of life, and although a 
fullgrown male was shot full in the chest with SSG at either of these localities mentio- 
ned both dragged themselves away in the bushes and were lost. On account of this 
bad luck I cannot dare to say anything more about the Baboons of Nairobi and 
Esearpment except that they certainly belong to this group of the genus, as was 
proved by the general darkness of their fur, by their black faces, and purplish brown 
colour of the naked parts around the callosities which details | observed with full 
certainty with my field glass. It is, however, quite possible or even probable, that 
they belong to the same race as the Baboons of the Guaso Nyiri district, described 
below. 
Papio anubis furax (ELvio7). 
fiuor: Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. 20 p. 499. 
In the work »Zoology of Egypt», Mammalia, ANpERSON has proved that the 
oldest specific name given to a blackfaced, dark »green» Baboon with purple-brown 
eallosities is anubis Fiscuer 1830. Of this group a number of so called species have 
been described, but at least a part of these are only comparatively slight modifica- 
tions of the anubis-type and do not deserve, according to my opinion, to be regarded 
as possessing higher rank than that of geographic subspecies. This is also the case with 
some Baboons which I shot in the thornbush north of Guaso Nyiri. In their general 
colouration some of them agree quite well with ANDERSON’s plate (op. cit. Pl. IV) 
of Papio anubis from Abyssinia = Papio doguera Pucueran. The skulls of my spe- 
cimens are, however, smaller than the skulls of Abyssinian Baboons according to the 
measurements recorded by ANDERSON (I. c. p. 40). They agree with regard to their 
