514 Mr. E. C. Wiouolitou on 



LXVII. — Four new African Mammals. 

 By R. C. Wroughton. 



In my note on the forms of tlie small African mon':^oose with 

 a dark-tipped tail (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1907, xx. p. 110) 

 I arranged those of North-east Africa as subspecies of 

 Muvgos so7iguineus, E-iipp. Recently Mr. L. M. Seth-Smith 

 has presented to the National Collection two specimens from 

 Uganda, which, while differing inter se, agree in having 

 unicoloured feet, a character which distinguislies them from 

 all the four forms enumerated by me. In my key therefore 

 all the forms dealt with may be included in a subsection 

 characterized by having grizzled feet, while the two new 

 races, to be now described, constitute a second subsection, aa 

 follows : — 



Hands and feet unicoloured ocbraceous. 



Size smaller: hind foot 58 mm. Colour 



darker (raw umber). (Entebbe.) M. s. Uganda, subap. n. 



Size larger : bind foot 64 mm. Colour paler 



(tawny ochraceous). (Mubende.) .... M. s. galbus, subsp. n. 



Mungos sanguineus ugandce, subsp. n. 



About the size of M. s. ibea?. Fur medium (15 mm. long 

 on back). Colour above "clay-colour," variegated with 

 bhick, giving a general effect near raw umber, below " clay- 

 colour." Individual hairs of the back basally drab for ^ 

 their length, distally " clay-colour," with a subterniinal black 

 ring (2-8 mm. wide), darkening again towards extreme tip. 

 Crown, face, and cheeks finely grizzled buff and black. 

 Hands and feet " tawny ochraceous." Tail coloured like 

 back, with a black tip 60-70 mm. long. 



Skull as in ibece. 



Dimensions of type (measured on the skin) : — 



Head and body 330 mm. ; tail 290; hind foot 58. 



Skull: condylo-basal length 66; basilar length 60 ; zygo- 

 matic breadth 33; brain-case breadth 27; palate, breadth 

 across p^ 22, length c-m^ 21'5. 



Hab. Entebbe, Uganda. 



Tgpe. Adult male. B.M. no. 9. 5. 12. 1. Collected 18th 

 July, 1908. 



Mungos sanguineus galbus, subsp. n. 



Size larger than any other known form of sanguineus. 

 Ground-colour bright ochraceous, variegated on the back with 



