484 A SPORT/NG TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA 



just beginning to distinguish the races more carefully. The following are 

 the African forms : — 



Lepiis a-L;y/>/!iis. — North Africa and Eg)-pt proper. 

 Lepus i'sa/'Llli/iiis. — Senaar, Kordofan, and Western Soudan. 

 Lepiis hahcssiniciis. — Interior of Abyssinia. 

 Lipi/s soiiia/ii'iisis. — Interior of Somaliland. 

 Lepus berbe>-aiuis. — Abyssinian and Somali coast-lands. 

 Lepus tigreiisis. — .Abyssinian mountains, from 8100 feet upwards. 

 I^epus microtis. — Bahr-el-Cazal, and North Abyssinia. 

 Lepus capcnsis. — South Africa and .Mozambique. 

 Lepus oiliropus. — Zambesia, .\ngola, Congo, and Central Africa. 

 Lepus li'hytci. — Xyasaland. 

 Lepus Victoria'. — X'ictoria Nyanza region. 

 Lepus crassicaudatus. — Cape Colony proper. 

 Lepus melanurus. — Natal. 



Lepus saxatilis. — Mountain regions of Cape Colony, Natal, Zambesia, 

 and Mozambique. 



Lepus salcT. — Benguela. 



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 Total shot, 2. — I 1^ , I ? 



No. and Se.x. Locniitv. Date. 



5 Hensa 16. 11.99 



II i Lasman 17. II. 99 



Orycteropus cetliiopicus (Sundev). East African Ant-bear. 

 (Native name, " Saherar.") 



This is the eastern representative of Orycteropus senegalensis, from 

 which it differs in several points ; but if the skull is examined, an obvious 

 difference is that the last molar but one of O. athiopicus is the same size 

 as the last molar of O. senegalensis. There are four species of Orycteropus 

 living. 



Orycteropus capensis (Gm.). — South, Central, and South-East Africa. 



Orycteropus cetliiopicus (Sundev). — North- East Africa, Sennar, and 

 Kordofan. 



Orycteropus senegalensis (Less.). — West .Africa, north of Clold Coast. 



Orycteropus haussanus (Matschie). — Togoland. 



I append Mr. Powell-Cotton's notes in full. 



"Saw tracks of them at Gineble, Ordah, and Bilen, but nothing like the 

 number found on the south side of the Mareb. 



" The rains having commenced, it was easy to track them. They do 

 not seem to feed much at any one ant-hill ; one we followed had visited 



