NO. 13 NEW ANTELOPES AND CARNIVORES 1 5 



The type measured in the flesh. — Head and body, 495; tail, 310; 

 hindfoot, 118 ; ear, 58. Skull adult, the basisphenoid sutures obliter- 

 ated. Greatest length, 87 ; basal length, 74 ; condylo-basal length, 80 ; 

 zygomatic breadth, 63; interorbital breadth, 17; post orbital con- 

 striction, 33 ; breadth of brain case, 43 ; palatal length, 33 ; width of 

 rnesopterygoid fossa, 11 ; nasals, 25 x 11. 



Besides the type there is another adult female in the National 

 Museum from the Northern Guaso Nyiro River near its junction 

 with the Isiola. The tip of the tail in the type is now missing, but that 

 of the other specimen which agrees in body coloration minutely with 

 the type has the terminal portion of the tail banded with black to the 

 same extent as in typical ocreata. 



Specimens representing ocreata from Abyssinia in the British 

 Museum have the breast unspotted and the underparts lighter buff, 

 but the color of the dorsal surface and the underfur is quite the same 

 as in taitae. 



