A NEW CHACMA BABOON. 559 



P. porcarms, in which it is stated that " the lower part of tho 

 arms and legs [aie] darker than the rest of the body, almost black, 

 the upper part of the hands and feet quite black." Since 

 Mr. Sclater further adds that " there are in the South African 

 Museum skins and skulls from the Stellenbosch, Tulbagh, 

 Worcester, Beaufort West, and Albany divisions of the Colony," 

 it may be inferred that his description of the typical form of the 

 species was taken from the material in question. 



During its lifetime in the Gardens, the baboon did not show 

 any change in colour, so that there are no grounds for believing 

 that the differences above pointed out are due in any way to age. 

 The Society also possessed at one time a second specimen, an adult 

 male, deposited by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, which exactly 

 resembled the type ; but for this, unfortunately, no precise locality 

 was known. The exact northern range in S. Africa of the typical 

 or black- handed Chacma appears to be unknown ; but on tho 

 evidence supplied by the type specimen of P. porcarms griseipes, 

 it may be supposed that the latter supplants the former at least 

 in the Southern Transvaal. Chacmas have been recorded by 

 Mr. Yaughan Kirby from the country between Beira and the 

 Zambesi ; and according to Mr. Sclater the species is abundant 

 in Natal and the Transvaal ; but it does not appear that any 

 specimens from the lattei' country have been described or critically 

 examined hitherto. 



Text-%. 145. 



Black-footed Polecat (Puforius nigripes). 



(3) A specimen of the North American Black-footed Polecat 

 (Putorius nigripes) (text-fig. 145), recently received in exchange 

 from the Zoological Society of Washington. 



The peculiar coloration of this animal, taken in conjunction 



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