Mi. H; CARNIVORES AND BABOONS FROM AFRICA— HELLER II 



Coloration. — General color of the type olive: hair annulated. 

 basally hair brown with a broad subterminal band of buffy and a black 

 lip. Skin of face quite blackish with a scattered growth of downy 

 -ravish hair. Forefeet showing a mixture of black and olive ; hind- 

 feet without blackish cast, being vermiculated like the body. Chin 

 and throat blackish, rest of underparts vermiculated like the upper- 

 parts, but the hair of the chest and belly basally seal-brown or black. 



Measurements. — .Measurements in the flesh: head and body, 

 723 mm. ; tail, 439: hindfoot, 215. Skull old, with the incisors much 

 worn. Greatest length, [98; basilar length, 135 : zygomatic breadth. 

 115; rostral width midway between orbit and nares, 30: length of 

 snout from orbit to tip of premaxillae, 110; length of upper cheek 

 teeth series, 55. The snout in furax is equal in length to that of 

 testes, but it is fully a third wider measuring usually more than 

 40 mm. 



Remarks. — Three old males of this race are in the National 

 Museum collection from the Ulukenia Hills. They agree in having 

 the rostrum long and narrow as in the type and are easily distinguish- 

 able by this character from skulls of furax. The race described as 

 ueumanni from the Rift Valley of German East .Africa i> decidedly 

 smaller and lighter colored. 



PAPIO ANUBIS VIGILIS, new subspecies 

 Xorth Kenia Baboon 



Type from the Lakiundu River near its junction with the Northern 

 Guaso Nyiro, British East Africa: old male. Cat. No. 182033, C. S. 

 Nat. Mus. ; collected by Edmund Heller, July 10, [911 ; original 



No. 2ZZ7- 



Charaeters. — Papio anubis vigilis is a very long, -lender snouted 

 race of large body size. The snout has the same proportions as testes. 

 but the body size is much larger, the general coloration paler, the face 

 grayish rather than blackish, the tail longer and the forefeet or hands 

 without any blackish coloration. Erom furax it differ- by its more 

 slender and longer snout, lighter coloration and absence of black 

 on the hands. 



Coloration. — General color of the type light grayish olive on the 

 shoulders, the back and rum]) huffy brown lightly vermiculated by 

 black. Eorelimbs like the shoulders to the linger tips, the hands not 

 differentiated by darker color. Hindlimbs more buffy like the rump 

 in color, but without black vermiculation, the feet uniform in color 

 with the rest of the limb. Tail like the hindlimbs. the- terminal por- 



