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tips black. On the rump the buffy of the wool-hairs becomes 

 more tawny and at the same time less hidden by the longer 

 hairs, thus producing the general effect of a more rufous 

 rump. Under surface dull buffy or tawny, the bases of the 

 hairs slaty. Head clearer grey than the back, the cheeks 

 especially being without buffy suffusion. Ears short, clear 

 grey, their backs rather darker than their inner surface ; 



their inconspicuous fringes dull whitish. Nape-patch dull 

 tawny. Chin buffy whitish ; chest grizzled buffy, like sides. 

 Limbs deep tawny proximally, paling to dull buffy ter- 

 minally. Tail thick and long, wholly tawny rufous, without 

 dark tip ; a few of the terminal hairs only with inconspicuous 

 dark ends. 



Skull smaller in all dimensions than that of 0, crassicau- 

 datus, but of about the same general proportions. Shoulder- 

 like expansions at the anterior bases of the zygomata, 

 projecting considerably both forward and outward. Palatal 

 foramina very large, widely open, their greatest breadth ex- 

 ceeding the antero-posterior diameter of the palatal bridge, 

 which is far narrower than in 0. crassicaudatus. Molars 

 with the peculiar characteristic structure found in 0. crassi- 

 caudatus. 



Approximate dimensions of the type (measured in skin) : — 



Head and body 385 millim. ; tail 100, with hairs 130 ; 

 hind foot (s. u.) 74; ear 55. 



Skull: greatest length 82 ; zygomatic breadth 40 ; nasals 

 38 X 17 ; interorbital breadth 16"5 ; intertemporal breadth 

 13*5; diastema 26; palatal foramina 24 x 83; palatal 

 bridge 7*8. 



Hah. ISIjika Plateau, Northern Nyasaland. " On the 

 highest peaks, at about 7000 feet." 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 97. 10. 1. 254. Collected 

 June 1896 by Mr. A. Whyte, and presented by Sir Harry 

 Johnston, K.C.I3. Two specimens. 



This hare differs from 0. crassicaudatus by its smaller 

 size, shorter feet and ears, longer and more wholly red tail, 

 and by tiie cranial details described above. 



Oryctologus crassicaudatus Gurryi, subsp. n. 



Size smaller than in true 0. crassicaudatus ; about as in 

 0. c. nyikce-j feet short, but ears longer than in nyikoi. 

 General colour far more rufous than in the other forms, 

 mainly owing to the very different colour of the underfur. 

 Longer hairs of back with a short black tip, a subterminal 

 buffy ring, succeeded by a sligiitly darker part, below which 



