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their anterior edge, only becoming a little fulvous posteriorly ; 

 in fasciatus each light sti'ipe is fulvous antei-iorly becoming darker 

 fulvous posteriorly. Head finely grizzled grey, blacker on the top 

 of the muzzle. Eai's gi'ey, without fulvous sufi'usion. Limbs 

 grizzled grey, daikening terminally on the hands and feet to 

 black. 



Skull of normal proportions, but the teeth unusually large. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the llesh) : — 



Head and body 3(34 nun. ; tail 236 ; hind foot 73 ; ear 24. 



Skull — condylo-basal length 73 mm. ; basal length 68 ; zygo- 

 matic breadth 39 ; palate-length 39 ; greatest diameter of p^ 7'4. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 6.11.8.51. Original number 

 1628. Collected 13 August, 1906. 



This beautiful grey form of the Striped Mungoose may be 

 readily distinguished by the reduction of the fulvous suffusion of 

 the fur, this being only present along the posterioi- border of each 

 dorsal light band, Avhile in the other forms some trace of it 

 occurs all over the body ; the clear grey nape and shoulders of 

 C. f. senescens are especially noticeable. 



The young specimen no. 1558 is more like the typical form. 



" Native name, ' Gale.' 



" Apparently faii'ly common, but difficult to secure owing 

 partly to its wai-iness and partly to its often inhabiting the 

 denser parts of the bush. The specimens obtained were shot 

 during native hunts and were taken fi'om troops of perhaps eight 

 individuals. It is distinctly gregarious and diurnal in habits, 

 living principally on coleopterous insects and the eggs and young 

 of ground-breeding birds." — 0. H. B. G. 



19. Mellivora ratel Sparrm. 

 "Native name, ' Sididi; "— C. H. B. G. 



20. IcTONVX capensis Kaup. 

 cJ. 1534, 1655. $. 1575. 

 "Native name, ' Shingemani.' 



" Fairly common everywhere, especially near native kraals, 

 where it makes itself a considerable nuisance by stealing chickens. 

 Nocturnal only."— C. H. B. G. 



21. FUNISCIURUS SPONSUS, sp. n. 



cT. 1596, 1600, 1608 (yg.), 1609, 1610. $ . 1547, 1560, 1561 

 1611, 1612. 



A Fu)iisciuri(s intermediate in size between cepapi •Ai\(\p(dliatus, 

 with the colour pattern of the former and the bright colouring of 

 the latter. 



Size rather smaller than in F. paUiatus. 



Fur of back soft, 12 mm. long; that of tail 30-40 mm. 



General colour above grey-brown freely grizzled with A'ery pale 

 buff or yellow ; the individual haii's black or dark bi-own, each 



