KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 48. wn:o 5. 59 
Hyena schillingsi Marsonir. 
Marsewe: Sitzber. naturf. Freunde. Berlin 1900, p. 55. 
A specimen of Striped Hyena from the Kedong Valley procured for comparisons 
sake from Mr. Kuery at Nairobi agrees perfectly as well in colour as in pattern with 
Marscuikr’s description of the type and with a specimen from the Kilimanjaro district. 
Especially the two broad stripes over the hind quarters is a good distinguishing 
characteristic from the following race. The type locality of this species is the plains 
around Kilimanjaro but it is evidently widely distributed over the Masai steppe, while 
the following race takes its place further north. 
Hyena schillingsi rendilis LOnNsBerG. 
Linnperc: Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 8, Vol. IX, p. 64. 
With regard to the dimensions of the skull this Hyena closely resembles the 
Striped Hyena of the Kilimanjaro district named Hyena schillingsi Marscuin.' The 
width of the palatal opening between the suture palatopterygoidee is even somewhat 
narrower (conf. the accompanying table of measurements) than in H. schillingsi and 
H. hienomelas bergeri Matscute in which two races this measurement is narrower than 
in all other described races of Striped Hyenas, in which it at least amounts to 21 
mm, according to Marscuin.* H. hienomelas bergeri differs from this new race in 
the same points as from H. schillingsi viz. by greater interorbital breadth, greater 
length of the posterior portion of the head, and the direction of the postorbital 
processes as set forth by the author quoted. 
The dimensions of two skulls of H. s. rendilis are recorded in the accompanying 
table of measurements together with those of a typical H. schillingsi from Kilimanjaro. 
Hyena from north of Hyana 
Guaso Nyiri | schillingsi 
~ —_—...—| from Kili- 
of Q | manjaro 
mm. | mm. mm. 
Greatest length of skull. «5.590 6) 0 eye ole se sis etinie se ele pee 234 |, 307 | 228 
| RUMITEMMIOTGTIER TG So es, ignites ORS. +o fe x cas a) + 43 Wines Sil ol eb « 200 173 / 195 
Zygomatic breadth of skull .-...- + +--+ ee eee eee een ena 148,5 117 144 
Primese interorbital breadth . . i934. 0.6 se te et ee 48,5 38 44,5 
| Least breadth of skull behind postorbital processes « «2... ee ee te 38 | 36 34 
) Greatest breadth of skull in the occipital region ......--+.++5. sl 73 79 
Breadth of skull across canines ..... - “lt eels Wk d “abr le aust ros see 50 45 51 
| Breadth of skull across anterior lateral cusp of p'’ ....-. +--+. 5 83 73 83 
Distance between bull# at foramina lacera media... .-.- +2 sss ees 22,5 22 21 
! Sitzber. Naturf. Fr. Berlin 1900, p. 55. 
2 ibidem Berlin 1910, p. 365. 
