118 Mr. R. C. Wrouglitou on 



69. 10. 24. 12. Adigrat, Tigre, Abyssinia (IF. T. 

 Blanford) . 



3. 12. 5. 2-3. Chadi Saati, Erythraja [Schrader). 



12. Mungos saiiguineus proteiis, Thos. 



1907. Mimgos gracilis 2:>rotefis, Thos. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. .\ix. 

 p. 119. 



A very variable form, much subject to melanism. IMr. 

 Thomas describes the colour as ranging from " grizzled 

 tawny ochraceous" to " blackish bistre." 



The recorded dimensions are : — 



Head and body 306 mm. ; tail 260 ; hind foot 59 ; 

 ear 25. 



Skull : condylo-basal length 61 ; basilar lengtli 56 ; zygo- 

 matic breadth 30*5; palate breadth across /»* 19'5; length 

 c-m' 21-7. 



Nab. Type locality Ruwenzori. (Type, B.M. no. 

 6. 12. 4. 3.5.) 



6.12.4.31-36. Ruwenzori. 



13. Mungos sanguineus ibece, subsp. n. 



Size about as in M. s. mutgigella ; general colour '' olive- 

 buff." Hairs of back 15-20 mm. long, black, with subbasal 

 and subterminal rings bright buff, eacii 2-3 mm. wide; 

 grizzling of back, as in all the preceding forms, tending to 

 assume transverse dark stripes on hinder back and flank ; 

 head and feet more finely, tail more coarsely grizzled ; hairs 

 of latter, 25-30 mm. long, each with three or four buff rings. 



Skull distinctly longer than in any of the preceding 

 forms, the extra length almost wholly behind postorbital 

 constriction. 



Dimensions of the type specimen : — 



Head and body 330 mm. ; tail 300 ; hind foot 60 ; ear 2Q. 



Skull : condylo-basal length 67 ; basilar length G2 ; 

 zygomatic breadth 35; palate breadth across j'/ 22 ; length 

 c-ni^ 23'5. 



Uab. Kikuyu, British East Africa. (Type, adult ? , B.M. 

 no. 4. 12. 6. 7. Collected by S. L. Hinde, Esq., at Fort Hall, 

 British East Africa.) 



Like the other forms it seems that M. s. ibece has a tendency 

 to melanism, though much less so than in M. s. viutgigella or 

 s. proteus. Of the two specimens taken at the same place 

 by Mr. Crawshay, one is quite normal ; in the other the 

 width of the buff rings is mudi reduced everywhere, while on 

 the face and along the median dorsal line they are absent. 



