Carmvora from NortJi-east Africa. 4G3 



O. canezcens. O. virgafus. O. meqalotie. 



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B.M. 6.3.4.4. B.M. 8.3.14.1. B.M. 92.10.18.11. B.M. 42.12.6.3. B.M. 46.6.2.29. 



TyP6 ' ShwkT (Leikipia.) (Kilimanjaro.) (Cape Col.) (S.Africa.) 



mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. 



Condylobasal length. 1108 108 104 111-5 (Hinder 115 



part of skull 



Basilar length 104 101-2 99 105 broken.) 1065 



Zygomatic breadth . 64-5 61-5 60 62 55 64 



jrreatest breadth of 



brain-case 41 41 42 41-6 43 43 



[nterorbital breadth . 23-6 24-5 20'4 21 19-5 21 



Fostorbital constric- 

 tion 26 30-5 28 28 26-5 27 



Breadth on canines . 18-5 20 17'6 18-6 18 17 



Width of palate be- 

 tween m { and w* 2 . 30 29 27 28 28 30 



Mandible, from the 



condyle 81 82 80 86-5 82 86 



Upper dental series, 



from canine 40"5 41 42-4 43 44 46 



Lower dental series, 



fromcauine 48 49 48 50 47 52 



Width of m x 6 "J ( 5-5 5 6-2 7 



Length of the same > (Lost) \ 



tooth 4-6 j ( 4-8 4-5 4-5 5-5 



Bah. " All the internal plateau of Somaliland " (Drake 

 Brockman, 'The Mammals of Somaliland/ p. 49). 



Type. Adult, but not old, male. B.M. no. 6. 3. 4. 5. Col- 

 lected by Mr. Drake Brockman in Somaliland, 10 miles south 

 of Burao, on December 31, 1905. Collector's no. 52. 



I have seen, besides the type and the Upper Sheik specimen, 

 procured by Mr. Drake Brockman and mentioned in the 

 above table, another without exact locality, collected by Lord 

 Delamere, and two skulls without skins, one from Lahello, 

 collected by Mr. Peel, and the other presented by Mr. Rowland 

 Ward, without exact locality. 



Examining some other African Carnivora in the British 

 Museum, I find that the Nubian Proteles, represented in the 

 collection by several specimens obtained in and near Suakim 

 by the late Dr. Anderson and M;ijor Penton, appears to be 

 a new form, so different from the South-African P. cristatus 

 that I almost incline to regard it as a distinct species. But 

 other forms of the genus having been previously described 

 as mere subspecies by the Hon. W. Rothschild *, I think it 

 wiser to place the Nubian animal, at least provisionally, in 

 the same category. 



Nov. Zool. ix. p. 443. 



