Collection of Mast African Mammals 



mammals brought home bv Schillings to realise the 



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importance of" his collection. He has collected a greater 

 number ot different species than any other traveller before 

 him. He has secured three-fourths of the various species 

 which were to be looked for in the districts through which 

 he travelled. 



He has, moreover, discovered several species the 

 existence ot which in or near German Hast Africa had not 

 been suspected. Great interest was aroused, for instance, 

 by his discovery of a striped hyama, which other travellers 

 imagined they had seen, but had not captured. This is 

 the animal which I have designated Hyana schillings!. 

 The author killed one specimen in 1896, but this unfor- 

 tunately was not preserved. Now, however, the Berlin 

 Natural History Museum contains quite a number of skins 

 and skulls of this species, collected by Herr Schillings, 

 in 1899 and 1900, on the Masai highlands. A new 

 species of hill-antelope, or the klipspringer, has also been 

 discovered by him, which Oscar Neumann has designated 

 Oreotragus schillings!. Among the Rodents there are 

 also several new types, while there are several other 

 species among the Ungulates which have still to be 

 classified and named. 



Herr Schillings' collections, then, provide a fund of 

 the most interesting revelations. I only wish that other 

 such collections could be made in other parts of German 

 East Africa, when our knowledge would be sufficiently 

 complete to enable me to bring up to date my own 

 book upon the mammals of the country, published nine 

 years ago. 



