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26. On Mammals collected by Captain Shortridge during 

 I he Percy Sladen and KafFrarian Museum Expedition 

 to the Orange River. By Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., 

 F.Z.S., and Martin A. C. Hinton, F.Z.S. 



[Received May 15, 1923 : Read June 12, 1923.] 

 (Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Thanks to the generosity of the Percy Sladen Trustees, and 

 the kind co-operation of the authorities of the King William's 

 Town Museum, Capt. Guy Shortridge, already so well known as 

 a collector in Burma and elsewhere, has been enabled to make 

 a collecting expedition to the Middle Orange River, a region 

 whence the British Museum has received but very few mammals, 

 and one whose faunal characteristics much needed investigation. 



The only considerable collections that have been received from 

 this direction were one made in Little ISTamaqualand by Mr. 0. 

 H. B. Grant for the Rudd Exploration*, a later one formed by 

 Messrs. Woosnam & Dent in Bechuanaland f, and finally that 

 obtained on Mr.. Woosnam's expedition to Lake Ngami and 

 described by Oapt. Dollman J. 



The present collection was obtained in the neighbourhood of 

 XJpington, on the Middle Orange River, and forms a very 

 important addition to our materials for the study of the mammal 

 fauna of South- West Africa. It consists of 378 specimens 



* See Thomas & Schwann, P.Z.S. 1904, vol. i. p. 171. 



t Schwann, P. Z. S. 1906, vol. i. p. 101. 



t Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) vol. vi. p. 388, 1910. 



Froo. Zool. Soc— 1923, No. XXXII. 32 



