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new African Mammalia. 343 
palate length 17°53; diastema 10°5; palatal foramina 7°8; 
length of upper molar series 6°7. 
Hab. Nandi, British East Africa. Altitude 2000 m. 
Type. Male. B.M. no. 99. 8. 4.66. Collected 22nd April, 
1898, and presented by F. J. Jackson, Esq. 
Mus hypoxanthus unyort. 
Size and proportions as in the other two forms. General 
colour above pale (between “ tawny olive” and “clay-colour”), 
coarsely lined with dark brown. Posterior back for nearly 
one third of the body bright tawny rufous. Under surface 
dull white on throat and chest; belly mesially white, edged 
with buffy laterally, or washed with buffy all over. Red 
nose-spot prolonged backward to surround eyes. Hars brown 
or rufous brown, a distinct fulvous postauricular patch. Fore- 
arms and wrists bright rufous ; upperside of hands greyish 
or sandy. Outer side of hind limbs rich rufous like rump, 
the upperside of the feet also fulvous or reddish. Tail nearly 
naked; scales about 11 to the centimetre; blackish above, 
rather paler below. 
Skull agreeing closely with that of VW. h. bacchante, but 
rather narrower and more delicately built. 
Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) :— 
Head and body 155 millim.; tail 185; hind foot (s. u.) 31; 
ear 20. 
Skull: greatest length 37; basilar length 30; nasals, 
length 14:3; interorbital breadth 4:9; palate length 16:5; 
palatal foramina 7:1; length of upper molar series 69. 
flab, Fadjas, on Victoria Nile, Unyoro. 
Type. Male. B.M. no. 2. 11. 1. 28. Collected 18th July, 
1897, by Dr. W. J. Ansorge. Six specimens. 
“ 'Tree-rat” (W. J. A.). 
1V.—TuE Common HARE OF CENTRAL CAPE COLONY. 
Among the fine collection of mammals from Deelfontein 
collected during the war by C. H. B. Grant, and presented to 
the National Museum by Col. A. T. Sloggett, there occurred 
a good series of the local representative of Lepus capensis. 
As no typical Cape material was available for comparison, 
opportunity was taken for Mr. Grant to obtain a Cape hare 
from near Capetown itself during a collecting-trip arranged 
by Mr. C. D. Rudd. 
This Cape specimen, in conjunction with the others in the 
Museum, shows, as might well be expected from the difference 
