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"Its custom of proceeding with crest erect is in all probability a 

 protective measure to frighten its enemies, which might mistake 

 it very easily for a young porcupine." (Drake-Brockman, 1910, 

 p. 134.) 



Goba Maned Rat 



LOPHIOMYS BOZASI Oustalet 



Lophiomys Bozasi Oustalet, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. [Paris], vol. 8, no. 6, 

 p. 400, 1902. (Goba, southern Ethiopia; alt. 3,000 m.) 



This species appears to be known only from some three or four 

 specimens. 



The female type is described as larger than L. imhausii; fur 

 thicker; an elongate white spot over each eye, with a black band 

 between; a white spot below the eye; muzzle and area about each 

 eye black. Total length, 535 mm. (Oustalet, 1902, p. 401.) 



De Winton (in Anderson and de Winton, 1902, p. 291) records 

 (under the name of L. imhausi) a specimen from near "Het Marafia" 

 ( = Let Marefia) and another from the forest of Tikem; both locali- 

 ties are in Shoa, Ethiopia. 



Hollister (1919, p. 37) refers to the present species a specimen 

 from Let Marefia, Shoa. 



Uaragess Maned Rat 



LOPHIOMYS THOMASI Heller 



Lophiomys thomasi Heller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 59, no. 16, p. 4, 1912. 

 ("Mt. Gargues (Uaragess), 6000 feet altitude, Mathews Range, British 



East Africa.") 



This species appears to be known from only three specimens from 

 the type locality. 



"Allied most closely to ibeanus, differing chiefly in darker and 

 more contrasting coloration .... General dorsal coloration deep 

 black, the hairs everywhere broadly white tipped . . . ; the sides 

 somewhat more extensively white than the median maned area; 

 . . . lateral bands . . . olive-drab .... Head chiefly black with 

 two prominent wide white bands over eyes, which meet on forehead, 

 another large white spot below eye .... Underparts grayish, the 

 hairs extensively white tipped . . . ; tail silvered like dorsal region, 

 the extreme tip white. . . . Head and body, 270 mm., tail, 165." 

 (Heller, 1912, p. 4.) 



"These three specimens were caught in rock crevices .... Heller 

 believes these Lophiomys to be strictly rock-dwellers, notwithstand- 

 ing reports of their living in holes of trees." (Hollister, 1919, p. 37.) 



