Mammals from Somaliland. 97 



Intermediate between this extreme and the grizzled buffy 

 of the Abyssinian ochraceus are two specimens from Northern 

 Somaliland obtained by Messrs. Atkinson and Peel. Al- 

 though intermediate, however, they seem to represent so 

 definite a stage in the process of reddening as themselves to 

 deserve a special subspecitic name. 



Herpestes ochraceus fuJvidiorj subsp. n. 



Fur grizzled as in true ochraceus, except along a median 

 area on the back about an inch in breadth, where it is nearly 

 or quite unannulated. Colour of the head, fore back, and 

 sides grizzled ochraceous, darker than in the typical form, of 

 the median dorsal area strong tawny ochraceous, in con- 

 tinuity with the tawny of the tail. Under surface buffy 

 whitish. Arras and legs externally like sides, internally like 

 belly ; upper surface of hands and feet pale ochraceous buff. 

 Tail rich tawny, darkening terminally, the tip, as usual, 

 black. 



Skull as in ochraceus. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — 



Head and body 254: mm. ; tail 2i2 ; hind foot 52 ; ear 2(3. 



Skull : basal length 54. 



Hah. (of type) . Mandeira, south of Berbera. Alt. 3500 feet. 

 Another specimen from Abori, near Eik, 5000 feet (G. V. A. 

 Peel). 



Type. Male. B.M. no. 97. 8. 9. 7. Collected 15th No- 

 vember, 1896, and presented by Dr. A. E. Atkinson. 



An additional specimen of this group, from Jifa Medir, not 

 far from Hargeisa {R. M. Hawker), is intermediate between 

 ochraceus and fulvi'dior, and indicates that these different 

 forms should not be separated specifically, as their striking 

 differences in colour might tempt one to do. 



Mr. de Winton * had already referred to the Abori and 

 Jifa Medir specimens under the name of H. ochraceus, Gray, 

 which he rightly resuscitated as a distinct species from 

 //. gracilisj liiipp. 



6. Helogale Atkinsoni, Thos. 

 (J. 146. Warandah. 



7. Helogale hirtula, sp. n. 



? . 145. Gabridehari, 60 miles west of Gerlogobi, 7th 

 March, 1904. Ty^je. 



* Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) i. p. 247 (1898), aud P. Z. S. 1898, 

 p. 763. 



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