788 MR. OLDFINLD THOMAS ON THE ~ Nove 27 
coloured. They inhabited undulating plateaus at an elevation of 
from 6000 to 10,000 feet above the sea. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. On the Mammals of Nyasaland: fourth Notice. 
By Oupriztp Tuomas, F.Z.8. 
[Received October 28, 1896.] 
(Plates XXXVIIT. & XXXIX.) 
The present paper contains an account of all the mammals 
which have been received by the British Museum from Nyasaland 
since the beginning of 1894, and forms a continuation of my three 
previous papers on the subject’. As before, it is to the generosity 
and scientific spirit of Sir Harry Johnston that we owe most of the 
specimens referred to, but in addition some other members of the 
British Administration have been good enough to contribute 
specimens on their own account, and thus to further the cause of 
scientific research. 
Among these .contributors may be specially mentioned the 
names of Mr. Alfred Sharpe, Dr. Percy Rendall, and Mr. H. C. 
McDonald, each of whom has been lucky enough to send home 
specimens sufficiently distinct to be described as new. 
In the following pages, where the name of the collector is put 
in brackets the specimens have been obtained as part of his 
official duties in the administration, and are to be considered as 
presented by Sir Harry Johnston ; while direct donations to the 
Museum are shown by the words “Presented by” before the 
name of the collector. As usual, the majority of Sir Harry 
Johnston’s specimens have been obtained by that indefatigable 
naturalist, Mr. Alexander Whyte. 
In order to make the list of Nyasa mammals as complete as 
possible, I have here inserted the name of every species obtained 
during the whole of Sir H. Johnston’s explorations of Nyasa- 
land, with references to the places in the previous three papers 
where the species are noticed or described, and, in addition, those 
mentioned by Mr. Sclater in his various papers. As a result the 
present paper contains a complete list of all the mammals as yet 
received by the Museum from Nyasaland, numbering 82 in all. 
1, Cotopus PaLLiatts, Pet. 
(C. angolensis, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1892, p. 97.) 
The receipt of more perfect Angolan specimens than were 
formerly available shows that Peters’s species is, after all, distinct, 
by the presence of a white frontal band, from that described by 
Sclater. 
1 P. Z, 8. 1892, p. 546; 1893, p.500; and 1894, p. 136. 
