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Proteles cristatus septentrionalis Rothschild, Novit. Zool., vol. 9, 

 p. 443, 1902. Somali Aard-wolf. ("Somaliland.") 



Creamy white, washed with buff on neck and sides of rump; 

 stripes less defined than in cristatus; mane black, variegated with 

 creamy white (W. Rothschild, 1902, p. 443). 



Proteles cristatus termes Heller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 61, 

 no. 13, p. 9, 1913. Masailand Aard-wolf. ("Headwaters of the 

 Amala River west of the Loita Plains, British East Africa.") 



Interorbital region black, crown grizzled, feet black, and ears 

 blackish as in cristatus; body stripes narrow; ground color grayish 

 fulvous; tail black on terminal third; muzzle and chin black; throat 

 grayish buffy. Head and body, 680 mm.; tail, 310 mm. (E. Heller, 

 19136, p. 9). 



Proteles cristatus transvaalensis Roberts, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 

 vol. 15, pt. 1, p. 6, 1932. Transvaal Aard-wolf. ("Roodekuil, Pre- 

 toria," Transvaal.) 



Pale buffy; face, bands on limbs and body, and distal third of 

 tail dark brown; mane rufous-white, the hairs with three brown 

 bands and blackish tips. Head and body, 650 mm.; tail,, 270 mm. 

 (Roberts, 1932, p. 6.) 



Proteles cristatus harrisoni Rothschild, Novit. Zool., vol. 9, p. 443, 

 1902. Angola Aard-wolf. ("Umpata, Mossamedes district, S. An- 

 gola.") 



Head white, grizzled with black; body pale orange rufous; stripes 

 less developed than in other races; mane and tail black, variegated 

 with rufous (Rothschild, 1902, p. 443) . 



The species as a whole has a wide range over southern and eastern 

 Africa, from Cape Province and Natal north to Angola, Northern 

 Rhodesia, and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It is apparently absent 

 along the low-lying east coast from the Transkei district of Cape 

 Province to Portuguese East Africa. (Shortridge, 1934, vol. 1, 

 p. 150.) 



Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Specimens have been recorded from the 

 vicinity of Suakin (Anderson and de Winton, 1902, p. 198; Cabrera, 

 1910, p. 465) and from the Blue Nile (Butler, in Maydon, 1932, 

 p. 151). 



Eritrea. This animal is rather widespread, if not common, in the 

 greater part of the country, especially in the southwest (Zammarano, 

 1930, p. 77). 



Ethiopia. It is "common on the lowlands and foot hills wherever 

 white ants abound" (Wylde, 1901, p. 485). 



British Somaliland. "The aardwolf is found sparsely scattered 

 throughout Somaliland. They are almost invariably seen alone." 

 (Drake-Brockman, 1910, p. 38.) 



