-* Collection of Hast African Mammals 



mammals brought home by Schillings to realise the 

 importance; of his collection. lie has collected a greater 

 number of different species than any other traveller before 

 him. lie has secured three-fourths ol the various species 

 which were to be looked for in the; districts through which 

 he travelled. 



lie has, moreover, discovered several species the 

 existence ol which in or near (ierman Kast Africa had not 

 been suspected. Great interest was aroused, for instance, 

 by his discovery of a striped hya-na, which other travellers 

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

 the; animal which I have' designated IIy(cna schillings}. 

 The author killed one; specimen in 1896, but tin's unfor- 

 tunately was not preserved. Xow, however, the: lu-rlin 

 Natural History Museum contains quite a number of skins 

 and skulls of this specie's, collected by I lerr Schillings, 

 in iSgQ and 1900. on the- Masai highlands. A new 

 spe:cies e>t hill-antelope, e>r the klipspringer, has also been 

 discovered by him, which Ose'ar Neumann has designated 

 Oreotragns schillings}. Among the Rodents there are 

 also several new type's, while there are several other 

 specie's among the: Ungulates which have still to be 

 classified and named. 



I lerr Schillings' collections, the-n, provide a fund ol 

 the most interesting revelations. 1 onlv wish th.it other 

 such collections could be: made in e>the:r parts ol (ierman 

 Kast Africa, when our knowledge would be sufficiently 

 complete: to enable me to bring up to date my own 

 book upe)n the mammals of the country, published nine- 

 years ago. 



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