African Mangoosen, 115 



leaving only a very sliort black tip. Face coloured like 

 back, but the grizzling tiner ; tail coloured like back. 



Dimensions : — 



Head and body (circ.) 260 nun. ; tail (circ.) 250 ; hind 

 foot 52. 



Skull : condylo-basal length (circ.) 58 ; basilar length 

 (circ.) 53 ; zygomatic breadth 29 ; palate breadth across 

 J9M9; length c-m' 21-5. 



Type (young adult), B.M. no. 72. 12. 12. 5. 



Hah. Cape Verd. 



8. Mungos melanurus zomhce, subsp. n. 



General colour " raw umber," with black tail-tip. 



Hairs of back 10-12 mm. long, dirty white at base, followed 

 by four rings, black and cream-buff alternately, with a black 

 tip, but in a very large proportion of the hairs thesubterminal 

 pale ring only gradually darkens to black at the extreme 

 tip. Face darker than back, almost black, very finely grizzled 

 with white ; tail and feet coloured like back. 



Dimensions : — 



Head and body (circ.) 260 mm. ; tail (circ.) 220 ; hind 

 foot 48 ; ear 24. 



Skull: condylo-basal length (circ.) 60; basilar length 55; 

 zygomatic breadth 29 ; palate breadth across p^ 19 ; length 

 c-m' 20-7. 



Ilab. Type locality Zomba, Nyasa. (Type, B.M. no. 

 97.10.1.67.) 



93. 5. 2. 2-3. Zomba, Nyasa {Sir IL II. Johnston). 



97. 10. 1. 67. Zomba, Nyasa {Sir H. IL Johnston). 



9. Mangos sanguineus^ lliipp. 

 1835. Jlerpesfes sanguineus, Riippell, N. Wirb. Abyss, p. 27. 



This form has hitherto been accepted as a species distinct 

 from 31. gracilis. The Natural History Museum has no speci- 

 men from Kordofan, the type locality of M. sanguineus, but a 

 specimen from the hills near Suakim can, I believe, be nothing 

 but a form intermediate between M. gracilis and sanguineus. 

 It is very pale in general colour and the tail-tip is half 

 chocolate-brown and half black. There is a cotype of M. 

 gracilis in the collection, and comparing these two si)ccimens 

 with l\ui)pL'irs ])latc of ^f. sanguineus andgracilis, the Suakim 

 individual resembles the figure of M. sanguineus qmtais much 

 as (if not rather more than) the cotype agrees with that of 

 M. gracilis. In the dimensions recorded by Riippell there is 



