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obtained by Dr. Brehm at Algoa Bay, and now preserved in the 
Leyden Museum. Temminck, in his original description, mentions 
another specimen, from the Gaboon ; but I am told by Dr. Jentink 
that this is not now in the Leyden Museum. 
The following is a description of the Algoa-Bay specimen :— 
Fur short and harsh, the hairs on the back barely half an inch 
long. General colour all over pale grey, the hairs finely grizzled 
with black and creamy white ; belly like the back, except that the 
hairs have longer pale tips and less black. Tail-hairs rather longer 
than those on the body, uniformly annulated with black and white ; 
no trace of a darker tail-tip. Feet and legs like the body ; soles 
naked. 
Dimensions (Algoa Bay). 
Head/and Gedy. <3. ghee... 13°0! 
Wa Deore ree. csc. +. 10°2 
EPogPosotret ts. tases esd 1°75 
The skull is so imperfect that the only measurements obtainable 
are the following, which Dr. Jentink has kindly taken for me :— 
This small species bears a certain resemblance to some of the 
smaller Indian Mungooses, especially H. auropunctatus, Hodgs., 
though it has much shorter fur than that species. It appears to be 
very rare, as there seem to have been no specimens recorded in 
addition to the two mentioned by Temminck, of which, as mentioned 
above, only one is now in the Leyden Museum. 
I may here mention that an examination of the type of H. micro- 
cephalus, 'Temm.”, a species of which the locality was not known, 
has convinced me that that name must stand as a synonym of H. 
auropunctatus, the specimen being quite similar to the types of 
Hodgson’s species preserved in the British Museum. 
8. Herprstes (ICHNEUMIA) ALBICAUDA. 
H. albicaudus, G. Cuv. Régne Anim. ed. 2, i. p. 158 (1829). 
*H, leucurus, Ehrenb. Symb. Phys. pl. 12. Decas 2 (1830). 
Ichneumia albescens, 1. Geoff. Mag. Zool. 1839, pp. 16 & 35 (de- 
scription, not figure) (1839). 
*H, loempo, 'Temm. lsq. Zool. Guin. p. 93 (1853). 
Ichneumia nigricauda, Puch. Rev, et Mag. Zool. vii. p. 394 (1855). 
? Bdeogale nigripes, Puch. t. cit. p. 111 (1855). 
*H. pluto, Gray, P. Z.S. 1864, p. 552 (nec Temm.) (1864). 
Ichneumia abu-wudan, Fitz. & Heugl. Sitzungsb. Ak. Wien, liv. 
Abth. 1, p. 561 (1866). 
Hab. East Abyssinia to Natal, and West Africa (Guinea &e.). 
Size large, form rather slender. Tail bushy, rather shorter than 
' Apparently somewhat stretched. 
* Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 113 (1853), 
