788 MR. J. LEWIS BONHOTE OX A SMALL [Nov. 9, 



3. On a Small Collection o£ Mammals from Egypt. 

 By J. Lewis Bonhote, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



[Received July 15, 1909.] 



The following is an account of a small collection of Mammals 

 brought home from Egypt. It was made up pai-tly of a 

 few skins and skulls which Capt. S. S. Flower had brought 

 together, chiefly those of animals that had died in the Giza 

 Zoological Gardens or had been killed as vermin, partly of 

 animals brought in from the district by natives, whom Capt. 

 Flower had commissioned on my behalf, and lastly of specimens 

 collected by myself. Unless otherwise mentioned the specimens 

 came from near Cairo. 



The collection contains some 28 species, of which one {Dipodillus 

 viarice) is new to science, in addition to which I have been 

 enabled to resuscitate the name Procavia burtoni for the Egyptian 

 Hyrax, which is quite distinct from both the Sudan and Palestine 

 species. An example of Acomys russattts, a very rare species, 

 which has hitherto only been found locally in Palestine and Syria, 

 was procured within a short ride of Cairo. The material has also 

 enabled the range of other and commoner species to be extended, 

 e. g. Gerhillus mackilligini, Lepus innesi. 



I must acknowledge my indebtedness to Messrs. Oldfield 

 Thomas, R. C. Wroughton, and K. Andersen, who have given me 

 much help in the working out of the collection, which is now 

 in the British Museum, and lastly to Capt. Flower, who is doing 

 so much for the Zoology of Egypt and without whose kind co- 

 operation this collection would never have been brought together. 



RousETTUS ^GYPTiAcus (E. Geolfr.). 



Pteropus cegyptiacus E. Geoffr. St. Hil. Ann. du Mus. xv. 

 p. 96 (1810). 



Kousettus cegyptiacus de Wint. in Anders. Zool. Egypt, Mamni. 

 p. 84 (1902). 



I found this Fruit- Bat extremely abundant in the Zoological 

 Gardens. They have never been found roosting there in the 

 daytime, but arrive as soon as it is dark and commence feeding 

 on the fig-trees. Later in the year, as other fruits ripen they 

 change their diet. Although most of my specimens were obtained 

 in February and March, the reputed breeding season, none of the 

 females were gravid. Several young about three-quarter grown 

 were shot. The White Owl {Strix ficmimecC) occasionally pi'eys 

 largely on these bats. 



Rhinolophus ACROTis BRACHYGNATHUS K. Anders. 



Rhinolophus acrotis hrachygnathus Anders. Ann. Maar. N. H. 

 ser. 7, vol. XV. p. 73 (1905). 



One male from the Giza Gardens. 



