1888,] EQUATORIAL AFRICA. 5 



the list is a merely nominal one, except that the different native 

 names of the animals are all carefully recorded. Two of Dr. Emin's 

 West-African animals, the Chimpanzee and Galago demidojji, occur 

 in the list. 



The 39 species in the present collection consist of 3 Primates, 

 8 Carnivora, 1 Insectivore, 3 Bats, 1 Ungulate, 1 Edentate, and no less 

 than 22 Rodents, Dr. Emin having wisely paid most attention to 

 the latter group, in which our knowledge of the smaller forms is 

 still so exceedingly incomplete. 



1. Anthropopithecus troglodytes (Gm.). 



a. Skeleton, S (incomplete). Bellima, Monbuttu. 



b, c. Skulls, old (5 and imm. Monbuttu. 



Without further material, and a much fuller examination than is 

 now possible of the whole genus, it is impossible to determine to 

 which of the races of Chimpanzee these specimens should be 

 assigned, and I therefore place them provisionally under the name 

 of the common West-African species. Chimpanzees from this 

 region have received the names of Troglodytes scJiweinfurthV, and 

 T. niger, var. marungensis^, but the evidence in favour of this dis- 

 tinction seems to be as yet exceedingly meagre. Some notes on an 

 acrocephalous skull of a Chimpanzee, also obtained by Dr. Emin, 

 were contributed to this Society by Prof. Flower in 1882 (P.Z. S. 

 1882, p. 634). 



2. CoLOBUS GUEREZA, Riipp. 



a. Immature. On the Nambiri', Sandeh (=Niam-niam) laud, 



20/7/83. 



This species is also mentioned by Schweinfurth as occurring in 

 Niam-niam. 



3. Galago demidoffi, Fisch. 



a. S. Stat. Gadda, Monbuttu, 18/3/84. 



b. c? . Stat. Gadda, Monbuttu, 3/5/84. 



" Iride flavo-umbrina. Monbuttu name ' Nensi.' " — E.'' 

 This species, like the last, was observed by Schweinfurth in 

 Niam-niam, but has otherwise only been recorded from West Africa. 



4. FeLIS SERVALINA, Ogilb. 



a. Immature. 

 As this specimen is immature, having its milk-teeth still in place, 

 it does not afford any additional information as to the vexed 

 question of the relation of F. servalina to the true F. serval, except 



1 Giglioli, Ann. Mus. Genov. iii. p. 56 et scqq. (1872). See also Peters, SB. 

 Nat. Freuude, 1869, p. 25 ; Issel, Ann. Mus. Genov. i. p. 56 ei scqq. (1870) ; 

 Hartmann, Arch. Anat. Phys. 1872, p. 474 ei scqq. ; and SchweiniurLh, ' Tin 

 Herzen von Afrika,' i. p. 558 (1874). 



» Noack, I. c. p. 291 (1887). 



' The exact position of this locality I am quite unable to find in any of the 

 maps at my disposal. 



* The particulars marked " E." are those noted on the labels by Emin Pasha. 



