484 A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA 



just beginning to distinguish the races more carefully. The following are 

 the African forms : — 



Lcpiis cegyptius. — North Africa and Egypt proper. 

 Lepiis isabellimis. — Senaar, Kordofan, and Western Soudan. 

 Lepits habessi7iicus. — Interior of Abyssinia. 

 Lipiis soiiialicnsis. — Interior of Somaliland. 

 Lcpus berberanus. — Abyssinian and Somali coast-lands. 

 I^epus iigrensis. — Abyssinian mountains, from 8100 feet upwards. 

 Lepits inicrotis. — Bahr-el-Gazal, and North Abyssinia. 

 Lepits capeiisii. — South Africa and Mozambique. 

 Lepiis ochropits. — Zambesia, Angola, Congo, and Central Africa. 

 Lepiis whytei. — Nyasaland. 

 Lepus victorice.- — Victoria Nyanza region. 

 Lepiis crassicaitdatus. — Cape Colony proper. 

 Lepus ;ne!a>iit)-its. — Natal. 



Lepus saxatilis. — Mountain regions of Cape Colony, Natal, Zambesia, 

 and Mozambique. 



Lcpus sake. — Benguela. 



Total shot, 2. — I c?, I ? 



No. and Sex. Locality. Date. 



5 Hensa 16. 11.99 



II i Lasman 17. 11.99 



Orycteropus cctJiiopicus (Sundev). East African Ant-bear. 

 (Native name, " Saherar.") 



This is the eastern representative of Orycteropus senegalensis, from 

 which it differs in several points ; but if the skull is examined, an obvious 

 difference is that the last molar but one of O. cetJiiopicus is the same size 

 as the last molar of O. senegalensis. There are four species of Orycteropus 

 living. 



Orycteropus capensis (Cm.). — Sopth, Central, and South-East Africa. 



Orycteropus ccthiopicus (Sundev). — North- East Africa, Sennar, and 

 Kordofan. 



Orycteropus senegalensis (Less.). — West Africa, north of Cold Coast. 



Orycteropus haussanus (Matschie). — Togoland. 



I append Mr. Powell-Cotton's notes in full. 



"Saw tracks of them at Gineble, Ordah, and Bilen, but nothing like the 

 number found on the south side of the Mareb. 



"The rains having commenced, it was easy to track them. They do 

 not seem to feed much at any one ant-hill : one we followed had visited 



