NO. 13 NEW ANTELOPES AND CARNIVORES II 



Measurements. — Head and body, 270 ; tail, 205 ; hindf oot, 45 ; 

 ear, 23. Skull, condylo-basal length, 54 ; zygomatic breadth, 28 ; 

 postorbital constriction, 10; palate breadth across PM 4 , 18.5; length 

 of upper tooth row to front of canine, 20; length upper carnasial, 6; 

 condylo-incisive length of mandible, 34.5 ; length at coronoid process, 

 12 ; length of tooth row to front of PM 2 , 17.5. 



The type is an old adult, all of the skull sutures having disappeared, 

 but the teeth show very little wear. Another specimen from the same 

 locality is in the collection. It is immature, the sutures of the skull 

 still being open and the milk canines are just being pushed out of place 

 by the permanent ones. The color of this specimen is less grizzled, 

 the black annulations being very narrow, the feet are almost uni- 

 form ochraceous-buff and the subterminal rufous area of the tail 

 is much greater. The specimen is a male and is somewhat larger than 

 the type. The mandible shows the first small premolars like the type. 

 The three skulls of lasti from Zanzibar in the British Museum all 

 have these first lower premolars, but they are lacking in all the other 

 races of small mungooses. The Zanzibar species does not otherwise 

 closely resemble this coast form. It differs widely by its uniform 

 dark rich brown color, larger size, longer tail and skull with a much 

 less inflated brain case. This new species is much nearer zombco in 

 size, proportions and coloration but is decidedly more grizzled, 

 smaller in size and possesses an additional lower premolar. 



MUNGOS ALBICAUDUS FEROX, new subspecies 



Type from Changamwe, British East Arica ; adult female, Cat. 

 No. 163294, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; collected by Dr. E. A. Mearns, Nov. 

 25, 1909. (Original No. 7275.) 



Characters. — Allied to Mungos albicaudus ibeanus most closely, 

 but coloration much lighter, being blackish only on median dorsal 

 region, and size somewhat larger, almost equalling Mungos albicau- 

 dus grandis of South Africa ; color as light as Mungos albicaudus 

 leucurus of the Nile Valley, but size much larger, with third lower 

 molar very much larger. 



Coloration. — Ground color buff, the median dorsal region blackish, 

 due to the presence of long black tipped hairs ; sides grizzled by 

 longer annulated black and white hairs ; the dense underfur every- 

 where buffy; feet blackish (dark seal-brown), the dark color cover- 

 ing forearm and extending on thighs as a streak to hips ; tail white, 

 the tip only pure white, the basal half having the hairs annulated with 

 a broad subterminal band of black ; underparts buffy, scantily varie- 



