Car nivora from Xor///.'a,sf Africa. 4'I3 



O. canateent. O. tirtjatui. O. megilolit. 



D.M. «;{.4.4. B.M. SJtU.l. B.M. 92.10.18.11." ilM. 42.12.6.3. B.M. 4rt.6j2i»? 



^^'^ ' tJluX!)' (l^'kipia.) (KiUmaiywo.) (Cape Col.) (8. Africa.) 



mm. miu. mm. mm. mm. mm. 



( ondylobasnl length. Ii08 108 104 lllu (HiiidL-r llo 



part of skull 



Hn.Mlftr length KM 101-2 !>'.» lOr, broken.) lOOo 



Zy-ruiuiitic bii'inlth . 1540 Gl-o 00 i)2 65 04 

 Great<'st bremltli of 



bmiii-case 41 41 42 416 43 43 



Interorbital breadth. L'30 24-5 20-4 21 195 21 

 I'o.-^i orbit 111 cou.-<tric- 



ti.m 20 30-5 28 28 265 27 



llreadth on canines . 185 20 17-0 186 18 17 

 Width of palate be- 

 tween m' and m' . 30 29 27 28 28 30 

 Mandible, from the 



condyle 81 82 80 80-5 82 86 



Upper dental series, 



from canine 405 41 424 43 44 46 



Lower dental .series, 



from canine 48 49 48 50 47 52 



Width of m' ^ ( 5-5 6 62 7 



Lengtli of the same > (Lost) \ 



tooth 46 j ( 4-8 4-5 4-5 6-5 



Ilah. "All tho internal plateau of SomalilanJ " (Drake 

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



T)ipe. Adult, but not oM, 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. b2. 



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. 



Examinino; some other African Oarnivora in the British 

 ]\lu^*eum, I tind that the Nubian Protehs, represented in the 

 collection by several specimens obtained in and near Suakim 

 by the late Dr. Atiderson and Major Penton, appears to be 

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

 that I almost incline to regard it as a distinct .««pecies. Hut 

 other forms of the genus having been [)reviousiy described 

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

 wiser to place the Nubian animal, at least j)rovisionally, in 

 the same category. 



• Nov. Zool. ix. p. 4i3. 



