On Miiiinnal.'' fruiii South Africa. 45.') 



LI II. — (hi a Collection of Mdminuls from South Africa. 

 By II. LvsTKii Jamioson. 



'I'niS pnpcr i.s based on a collection of about 440 inaininals, 

 repre.sentint; GO .species, wliicli 1 made in {South AtVicu 

 between 11)02 and tlio end of liJ07. 



I have exannned tlio niateiial wliieh I brought home at 

 the British Museum, and 1 am indi.'bteil to Mr. Oldlield 

 'J homa.s for courteously allowint^ me to make use of the 

 magnificent series of {South- African .skins in the National 

 (Collection. Without the opj)ortuiiity of comparing my 

 material with this standard collection the identilication of 

 many of the specimens here recorded would have been 

 impossible. 



1 have also to thank Mr. Thomas, Mr. R. C AVroughton, 

 and Dr. K. Andersen for much help and advice in naming 

 difficult species. 



(1) Galago crassicaudatus E. Geoff. 



Woodbush Mountain, Zoutpansbcrg District, Transvaal 

 (3000 to 0000 feet). 



J. 190, 194; ?. 167, 189, 193. 



I'he type locality of Geoffroy's Ga1a<jo crassicaudatus is 

 not given in his original description, but Peters states that 

 Geoffroy's type example came from Mozambique (Reise 

 Mossamb. 1«52). 



Geoffroy (Cat. Primates Mus. Pays-Bas, p. 328) also gives 

 Mozambique as the locality. 



The type example of G. crassicaudatus kirhii Gray is 

 from Quilimaine; it is therefore not improbable that kirkii is 

 a .synonym for crassicaudatus. On the other hand, the type 

 example of 6^. ^«»-He/^/ (Ogilvie), from Natal, and Grant's 

 Zululand series (Itudd Collection) in the British Museum 

 are, on the whole, browner and more heavily pencilled with 

 black than examples of G. crassicaudatus from the type 

 localit}', Nyassaland and the Gorongoza j\Iountains, in tlie 

 National Collection. ^loreover, the Natal and Zululand 

 form nearly alwaj-s has a dark tail-tip, which is generally 

 absent in G. crassicaudatus. It may be added that Grant 

 lias observed (Rudd Exploration of South Africa. — IX., 

 P. Z. IS. 1908, p. 166) that the calls of the two species are 

 diflerent. 



It would appear, therefore, that the Natal and Zululand 

 "Bush baby" (including in all probability G. zuluensis 



