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head behind the eve and below the ear arc marked by a few black 

 spots, but no evident line between the eye and the base of ear is thus 

 formed. The ears are pinkish-buff marked by a wide black band 

 covering lower half of back. The chin and upper throat are white. 

 I 'elage short mi dorsal surface, seven-eighths of an inch on the rump : 

 nape with a short mane three inches wide from head to behind 

 >houlders. The midline of breast and belly and the whole length of 

 the ventral surface of the tail is furnished by a ruff or short mane of 

 longer fluffy hair. 



Measurements. — No flesh measurements of the type are available. 

 The skull measures: greatest length, [80 mm. : condylo-basal length, 

 iiij: zygomatic breadth, 122 : nasals. 55 x 31 ; interorbital width, 39 : 

 post-orbital constriction, 53.5: breadth across post-orbital processes. 

 jj.^ : length of upper carnasial, 22 : width of mesopterygoid fossa at 

 suture, 2^ : condylo-basal length of mandible,' 122. Skull, young 

 adult, the sphenoidal and parietal sutures still evident. 



There are six specimens of this race in the National Museum 

 collection, four of which are adult females and two adult males. 

 Five of the specimens are from the Kapiti Tlains near Ulu station. 

 and one from Juja Farm. This series shows little variation in color, 

 all being" quite light colored with a distinct pinkish suffusion to the 

 buff ground color. They differ from vclox of the higher plateau 

 region by the lighter ground color which predominates over the 

 black of the spots which are in this race more widely separated. 

 Raineyi represents the coast race of the cheetah which inhabits the 

 lower slopes of the plateau region and the edge of the coast desert 

 region about the slopes of Kilimanjaro and in the vicinity of the 

 Tana River. The Athi and Kapiti Plains are the farthest inland 

 point reached by this race. 



PAPIO ANUBIS LESTES, new subspecies 

 Athi Baboon 



Type from the Ulukenia Hills, Athi Plains, British East Africa: 

 adult male. Cat. Xo. [64633, I". S. Xat. Mus. : collected by J. Alden 

 boring, Nov. i<>, 1909; original Xo. 8234. 



Characters. — Papio anubis testes differs from furax of the Rift 

 Valley region by the much narrower and longer rostral portion of the 

 skull, longer tooth row, less blackish feet, shorter tail and smaller 

 body size. From vigilis it may be distinguished by its darker body 

 color, presence of black on the hands, and smaller bodv size. 



