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young. The proportionally long tail is specially mentioned 

 by Riippell. 



Dimensions : — 



Head and body 300 mm. ; tail 340 ; hind foot 58. 



Skull : condylo-basal length 62 ; basilar length 37 ; zygo- 

 matic breadth 32; palate breadth across ^^ 20; length c-»i' 

 21-5. 



Hah. Type locality near Massowa, Abyssinia. (Cotype, 

 B.M. no. 163 a.) 



69. 10. 24. 11. Soaroo, Abyssinia ( W. T. Blanford). 



69. 10. 24. 13. Adigrat, Tigre, Abyssinia" {\V. T. 

 Blayiford) . 



69. 2. 2. 6. Abyssinia. Purchased. 



6. 11, 1. 17. L. Zuai, Abyssinia {Zaphiro, H. N. 

 McMillan). 



Uerpestes Galinieri is from the figure plainly a very 

 young M. gracilis. Mr. Thomas has quite recently made a 

 special examination of all the specimens in the Paris Museum 

 and assures me that the animal figured by Desmurs and 

 Prevost as FI. gracilis, on which both the names Lefehvrei 

 and ochromelas were based, is a pale example of M. s. gracilis, 

 in spite of the resemblance that the figure bears to 

 M. ochraceus. 



11. Mungos sanguineus mulgigella, Riipp. 



1835. Herpestes midciigella, Riippell, N. Wirb. Abyss, p. 29. 

 1839. Ichneumia 7iigricmulatiis, Geoffroy, Mag. Zool. p. 18. 

 1877. Herpestes mutscheltschela, Heuglin, Reis. N.O.-Afr. p. 43. 



Riippell defines M. mutgigella as " blackish umber-brown." 

 There is considerable individual variation in the extent to 

 which the body-hairs are annulated. In a cotype from near 

 Masowa all annulation is completely absent, while in a 

 specimen from Erythraia almost all tiie hairs are annulated, 

 though very coarsely. In all cases, however, it would seem 

 that annulation of the hairs is absent on the tail. The form 

 is rather larger than typical M. sanguineus and has a rather 

 markedly short tail. 



Dimensions as follows : — 



Head and body 350 mm. ; tail 320 ; hind foot Q2. 



Skull : condylo-basal length 65 ; basilar length 60 ; 

 zygomatic breadth 34 ; palate breadth across p^ 21 ; length 

 c— m 2o. 



Hah. Type locality Dembea and Simen Dists., Abyssinia. 

 (Cotype, B.M. no. 164 a.) 



46.6.15.37. Abyssinia. 



