470 ABBOTT’S KILIMA-NJARO MAMMALS—TRUE. 
Crocidura sp. ? 
The collection contains several specimens of a small Crocidura, which 
I am unable to identify. In the present state of the literature, the 
determination of any but the commonest species in this genus is impos- 
sible without actual comparison with the types. 
Connochetes taurinus albojubatus Thomas. Brindled Gnu. 
Dr. Abbott collected one young individual. It is of a dull gray color, 
with a narrow black mane reaching to the middle of the back, where it 
stops abruptly and is succeeded by a dark line which reaches to the 
base of the tail. The mane of the neck is whitish and the tufts at the 
angles of the jaw entirely white. The long hairs of the tail are entirely 
black; the legs dirty brownish gray. No transverse dorsal stripes are 
visible. The backs of the ears are black. 
The horns are 95 inches long, measured in a straight line; 123 inches 
around the longest curve. They are lyrate and straight at the points. 
The superior milk premolars and the first molar are in position. 
49242. Young. Taveta. 
Oryx callotis Thomas. Pencil-eared Oryx. 
PLATE LXXVI. 
Two skins which I believe to belong to this species are in the collee- 
tion—that of an adult female and that of a very young individual. 
These I regarded at first as representing 0. beisa, though my attention 
was attracted to the long pencils at the tips of the ears, which I could 
not find mentioned in any description of that species. 
I have recently received, through the kindness of Dr. Sclater, an 
imperfect skin of Oryx beisa from Berbera, Somali, collected by Capt. 
Swayne. Compared with this the adult female of O. callotis is less 
tawny. The color is almost uniform, being only somewhat lighter (not 
white) on the belly and inside of the legs. The muzzle and the base 
and internal fringe of the ears, however, are soiled white. The mane 
begins a little behind the middle of the back (not near the tail as in 
O. beisa) and is of the same gray color as the back, though the hairs are 
black at the roots. There is no dark marking below the knee, but the 
false hoofs are surrounded by a narrow ring of black. The dark mark- 
ings of the head and chest are well shown in the accompanying plate. 
The tip of the ear, the pencil, and the external margins half way to 
the base, are black. 
The young specimen resembles the figure of a young O. beisa pub- 
lished by Dr. Sclater,* but is a little paler in color. 
The horns of the adult are 293 inches long, and 84 inches apart at 
the tips. Those of the young individual are but 34 inches long. The 
skull of this specimen has only the three milk premolars in position in 
the upper jaw. 
sig. Adult female. Taveta. 
foe8. Young. Taveta. 
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* Proc. Zodl. Soc. London, 1881, pl. 54, 
