NO. 13 NEW ANTELOPES AND CARNIVORES 9 



PROTELES CRISTATUS TERMES, new subspecies 



Masailand Aard Wolf 

 Type from the headwaters of the Amala River west of the Loita 

 Plains, British East Africa; adult female, Cat. No. 181523, N. S. Nat. 

 Mus. ; collected by Edmund Heller, May 8, 191 1. (Original No. 



2I54-) 



Characters. — Intermediate in coloration between typical Proteles 

 cristatus of South Africa and Proteles cristatus septentrionalis of 

 Somaliland. Interorbital region black haired, crown of head grizzled, 

 feet black, and ears blackish as in cristatus; body stripes narrow ; 

 ground color of body grayish fulvous ; tail only black on terminal 

 third as in septentrionalis; muzzle and chin black; throat grayish- 

 buffy with fulvous suffusion. 



Measurements in the ilesh. — Head and body, 680; tail 310; hind- 

 foot, 142 ; ear, 97. Skull adult but sutures open. Condylo-basal 

 length, 136; basilar length, 125; zygomatic breadth, 75; breadth of 

 brain case, 46 ; interorbital width, 26 ; post orbital width. 33 ; length 

 of upper tooth row, 40 ; breadth at canines, 34 ; nasals, 42 x 1 1 ; con- 

 dylo-basal length of mandible, 96. 



Besides the type there are two other specimens in the National 

 Museum collection from British East Africa. One of these is from 

 the same locality as the type and the other is from the Northern 

 Guaso Nyiro River from the vicinity of Neumann's boma. This 

 latter specimen is much more fulvous than those from the higher 

 plateau of the Loita. In its lack of grayish coloration and suppres- 

 sion of the black areas this form approaches the Somaliland race. 

 The stomach of the type was crammed by a mass of termites upon 

 which the animal had been feeding. 



NANDINIA BINOTATA ARBOREA, new subspecies 

 Kavirondo Nandinia 



Type from the Lukosa River, northeast of Kisumu, British East 

 Africa: adult male, No. 182374; U. S. Nat. Mus.; collected by 

 Edmund Heller, Feb. 11, 1912. (Original No. 2695.) 



Characters. — Differs decidedly from Nandinia binotata binotata of 

 West Africa by the much narrower black rings on the tail, the nar- 

 rower black neck stripes and absence of spots on the lower sides of the 

 body. It approaches more closely the coloration of gerrardi of Nyasa- 

 land with which it agrees in the narrowness of the tail rings, but is at 

 once distinguishable by the presence of the three black stripes on the 

 nape and the larger and more conspicuous spots on the dorsal surface. 



