NO. 22 LARGE MAMMALS FROM EQUATORIAL AFRICA- -HELLER J 



seum by a series of ten skins and eighteen skulls of this race collected 

 by the Rainey expedition. The skins show remarkable uniformity 

 in color and relative size of spots and differ in this respect greatly 

 from the variable germinans no two skins of which are quite alike in 

 shade or extent of dark spots. They are readily distinguishable from 

 a large series of germinans from the Loita Plains and L'asin Gishu 

 Plateau by their lighter ground color and -mailer and less numerous 

 dark spots on the back. The young and the immature >peeimens are 

 much more heavily spotted and have the ground color darker than 

 the adults. They closely resemble in color the young of other races 

 and it is not until they become adult that their color characters 

 become apparent. Fisi is a light-colored desert race having the same 

 bodily size as the highland races. The spotted hyaena is known to 

 the Swahili and other coast tribes as fisi. 



