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Crown of head and hairs bordering dorsal gland similar 

 in colour to rest of upper-parts, so that the gland does not 

 form a conspicuous yellow spot; general colour apparently 

 lighter and less washed with fulvous than in P. syriaca ; 

 cheek-teeth relatively large, the length of the upper series, 

 being 35 or 36 mm. 



XII. PEOCAVIA SHAEICA. 



Procavia sharica, Thomas and Wroughton, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 ser. 7, vol. xix, p. 322, 1907. 



Typical locality Shari Valley, Lake Chad district. 



Type in collection. 



Size as in P. goslingi, but coat shorter and harsher, general 

 colour duller (hair-brown), and skull with a sudden narrowing 

 of fore part of nasals ; gland linear and orange. Total 

 length, 450 mm. ; basicranial length, 73 mm. 



XIII. PEOCAVIA HABESSINICA. 



Hyrax habessinicus, Hemprich and Ehrenberg, Symbol. Phys. decas i, 

 pi. ii,* 1828 ; Hcuglin, Fauna Eothen Meeres, Peterm. Mittheil. 

 1861, p. 16 ; Flower and Lydekker, Study of Mammals, p. 418, 

 1891. 



Hyrax ferruginous, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. iii, p. 242, 

 1869, Cat. Carnivora, etc. Brit. Mus. p. 283, 1869, Hand-List 

 Thick- skinned Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 42, 1873, partim. 



Hyrax irroratus var. leucogaster, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, 

 vol.iv, p. 242, 1869, Cat. Carnivora, etc. Brit. Mus. p. 288, 1869, 

 Hand-List Thick- skinned Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 42, pi. xii, fig. 3, 

 1873. 



Hyrax brucei, Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 642, Zool. Abys- 

 sinia, p. 252, 1872 ; Bocage, J. Sci. Lisboa, ser. 2, vol. iii, p. 193, 

 1889 ; nee Gray. 



Hyrax abyssinicus, Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 642 ; Bocage, 

 J. Sci. Lisboa, ser. 2, vol. iii, p. 122, 1889 ; nee Gray. 



Prccavia abyssinica, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 64 ; Moreau, 

 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. xxvii, p. 202, 1902. 



Typical locality Abyssinia. 

 Type in Berlin Museum. 



* The dark figure ; P. ruficeps is the upper, and P. syriaca, the 

 lower figure. 



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