ALLEN: MAMMALS FROM THE BLUE NILE VALLEY. a4 
is uniformly pale buff; the two dorsal rows ‘of spots on each side are 
much larger in one than in the other and prevailingly rusty in color. 
The median stripe is likewise more rusty than black. In the other 
two skins, the ground color is clearer gray, the dorsal rows of spots in 
one case rusty in the other more black than rusty, and the dorsal 
stripe black. In all, the two terminal light rings on the tail are in- 
complete dorsally owing to the median black portion connecting the 
three last dark rings. The stripes and rows of spots vary even on 
opposite sides of the body. ‘The spots in the row nearest the midline 
on each side show a marked tendency to run together into a stripe 
over the hips. The outer stripe from the nape to the shoulder, in 
one individual is broken into a series of elongated spots. The pale 
annulations of the tail in all are white ventrally shading rather 
abruptly into buff on the dorsal side. At the ankle, posteriorly the 
dark spot is rather ill defined and restricted. All the three males in the 
series are more buff than the single female, but the latter is practically 
identical with one of the males. Both are from Magangani, some ten 
miles below Roseires on the Blue Nile, whereas the two buffer speci- 
mens, with rusty spots and median stripe are from the Dinder River 
at Kuka and Ereif el Dik respectively. 
HYAENA HIENOMELAS Matschie. 
Nubian Striped Hyaena. 
Hyaena hienomelas Matschie, Sitzb. Ges. naturf. freunde Berlin, 1900, p. 53. 
The Striped Hyaena of the Atbara and neighboring region is con- 
sidered distinct by Matschie in his revision of the species. He calls 
it H. hienomelas, and quotes Latreille (Sonnini’s Suites de Buffon, 27, 
p. 25) as the authority. Latreille, however, did not give a Latin 
designation to this species, but refers to a specimen in the Paris 
Museum as having been called by Lacépéde chien hiénomelas. He 
further quotes Bruce’s account of its habits in the Sudan. The 
Latin name must then apparently be credited to Matschie. We 
trapped a specimen at Magangani and several times heard them about 
_ our camps along the Blue Nile. What I took to be their cry is differ- 
ent from that of the Spotted Hyaena, having a more musical quality 
with a rising then a falling inflection. 
