304 Mr. 11. C. Wroughton on 



Rhodesia, on the border of Portuguese East Africa, and about 

 150 miles south of Umtali on the Salisburj-Beira Railway, 



Althougli for the most part the specimens composing this 

 collection belong to known forms, yet they seem to be of 

 considerable interest from the point of view of distribution. 

 Thus the Oalago, Petrodrormcs, and Mungoose are the same 

 as those of the Zambesi Valley, and the local form of 

 A. pumilio is the same as that of Rhodesia, while the Vley 

 rat is identical with that of the Zoutpansberg district of the 

 Transvaal. Again, the Chirinda monkey is Cercopithecus 

 albogularis beirensis, while the Cricetomys differs from the 

 Beira form and agrees with that from Inhambane ; but 

 the new form of Funisciurus ■palliatus described, though 

 distinct, is, in colour-pattern at least, closely allied to the 

 Zululand and Nyasa forms and quite different from F. sponsus, 

 the form of the coast country from Inhambane to Beira and 

 Gorongoza. 



1. Cercopithecus albogularis beirensis, Poc. 



The present specimen approaches perhaps nearest to C. alb. 

 beirensis than to typical C. albogularis from Nyasa, but the 

 distinguishing characteristics are much less marked than in 

 the series from Beira in the Rudd Collection on which the 

 local race was based. 



2. Papio cynocephalus, Geoff. 



Sclater, in his ' Mammals of South Africa,' seems to fi.K 

 the Zambesi as the southern limit of the long-legged yellow 

 baboon, but the present specimen and those in the Rudd 

 Collection from Inhambane show that this is not so. 

 Mr. Grant tells me in his experience the Limpopo River is 

 approximately the frontier-line between P. porcarius and 

 P. cgnocephalus. 



3. Galago crassicaudatus, Geoff. 



The specimens are quite like those in the Rudd Collection 

 from the Gorongoza District, Portuguese E. Africa. 



4. Epomopihorus crypturus, Pet. 



5. TlJiinoloplius augur, K, Anders. 



This is most probably Andersen's subspecies zambesiensis. 



6. Pefrodromiis tetradactylus, Pet. 



Indistinguishable from specimens from Beira in the Rudd 

 Collection. 



