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detected at first glance. Moreover, the ratio between the zygo- 

 matic breadth and the condylo-basal lengtli is 65 to 72'5: 100 in 

 narrow skulls, and 70 to 75 : 100 in broad skulls. Of course, I 

 refer solely to adult specimens ; in young skvills the proportions 

 are very changeable, according to the age. 



Three only among the eleven forms described up till now 

 seem to be represented in the British Museum collection, as 

 follow : — • 



Crocuta capensis Desm. 



Two adult specimens, one from the Cape (B.M. no. 46.8.3.3, 

 Tamer), and another from the Pongola River, Zululand (B.M. 

 no. 2.2.8.1, D. Bruce), and a young one from the Cape (B.M. 

 no. 37.9,26.90, Turner). Gi'ound-colour dirty cream-bufl"; spots 

 small, round, numerous, and of a pale hair-brown ; mane dirty 

 ochre-yellow ; snout and feet dai-k-coloured, between sepia and 

 hair-brown. Skull of the broad type. 



Skull-measitremenis of no. 46.8.3.3. — Condylo-basal length, 

 236 mm.; zygomatic breadth, 176; interorbital breadth, 57; 

 postorbital constriction, 42 ; rostral breadth on canines, 64 ; width 

 of palate across the carnassials, 114; mandible, fi-om condyle, 

 180; upper tooth-series*, 100; lower tooth-series. 111; upper 

 carnassial, 35 x 22 ; lower carnassial, 30 x 12. 



A specimen from the Cape in the Madiid Museum of Natural 

 Science is entirely like the British Museum specimens. The 

 figure given by F. Cuvier in his ' Histoire Natui-elle des Mammi- 

 f^res,' after a living animal obtained in the saine locality by 

 Capt. Baudin, is not good, the difierence in height between the 

 fore and the hind quarters being too exaggerated. 



Crocuta wissmanni Matsch. 



An old specimen from Linyanti (B.M. no. 0.10.3.1, P. C. Eeid). 

 Ground-colour ochraceous ; under surface, from the throat, pale 

 cream-colour. The spots are very dark brown and show a 

 tendency to form longitudinal rows on the flanks. On the limbs 

 they are darker, almost black, and reach a lower level than usual 

 in the group. Mane ochraceous. Snout dark brown. Feet buff- 

 yellow. Skull of the narrow type. 



Skull-measurements. — Condylo-basal length, 256 mm. ; zygo- 

 matic breadth, 185; interorbital breadth, 64; postorbital 

 constriction, 53 ; rostral breadth on canines, 66 ; width of pala,te 

 across carnassials, 112; mandible, from condyle, 1 90 ; upper tooth- 

 series, 113; lower tooth-series, 117; upper carnassial, 35 x 20 ; 

 lower carnassial, 32 x 11. 



It is not without hesitation that I call this specimen 4OTssmaw?w, 

 as it lacks the black feet which Matschie says are characteristic 

 of the German West Africa Hysena, and which are to be seen in 



* In dcscvihing Carnivora, I always measure the tootli-rows from the front of 

 the canine to the back part of the hindmost cheek-tooth. 



