ON A LOIN-CLOTH OF A NATIVE OP NORTHERN NIGERIA. 673 



than 100 miles east of the Budonga, and with very little forest 

 intervening. The locality is a new one, and is probably the 

 easternmost limit of the species, which, after another gap of 

 150 miles of more or less open country still further east, gives 

 place to C&phalophus ignifer, the common red duiker of the East 

 African upland and rift-valley forests. 



" The two species are closely allied. In both the body-hair is 

 short and close-laid, and the horns slope backward in a line Avith 

 the forehead. Amongst other characteristics C. iveynsi may be 

 distinguished by the hairs on the nape being reversed forward. 



" These sleek, heavy, short-legged duikers are very pig-like in 

 gait and appearance, carrying the head low. They are found only 

 in dense forest, and, so far as my experience goes, never even feed 

 in the open, unlike the grey duiker so commonly to be met with 

 at forest-edges and often seen in the open. My two best heads of 

 C. weynsi measure 4| and 4| inches in length respectively. 



"I may also draw your attention to the specimens of hyrax — • 

 Procavia emini and P. dorsalis (?). Natui-alists do not seem to 

 quite realise that certain species of hyrax, the Dendrohyrax group, 

 are entirely arboreal, never living amongst rocks or holes in the 

 ground, but inhabiting the largest trees in dense troiDical forests ; 

 whilst other species are rock dassies, and though able to run up 

 and down the face of a perpendicular rock or even to play about 

 the neighbouring bushes, yet are in no sense arboreal. The 

 members of the Dendrohyrax group do not even live in hollow 

 trees as a rule, but upon the branches. 



" On looking closely at the skins of these two animals, P. emini 

 and P. dorsalis (?), both killed in high trees, it is interesting to 

 observe that the long bristles amongst the fur, so numerous and 

 so conspicuous, especially on the hinder part of the body, in those 

 species which are not arboreal, are here obviously absent or 

 only to be found on the neck or shoulders. I find, as the result 

 of an examination of the skins in the British Museum, that this 

 distinctive peculiarity holds good for the two groups in almost 

 every instance, the arboi'eal Dendrohyrax group being almost 

 without them, while in the rock-inhabiting species they are very 

 conspicuously developed, mainly posteriorly. 



" It seems probable that these long stiff hairs are tactile organs 

 and of very considerable use in dai-k burrows and holes amongst 

 the rocks ; whilst it is easy to see that they are of less utility 

 on the branches of trees, and in time, no doubt, would become 

 rudimentary or disappear altogether. 



" The weii'd, nocturnal, ventriloquistic cries of both groups of 

 these animals are even more extraordinary than their powers of 

 climbing." 



Dr. Christy also exhibited a loin-cloth taken in 1898 from the 

 dead body of a native in the Gando-Bornu district of Northern 

 Nigeria. In referring to it, he said : — " When first I caught 

 sight of this ornamental piece of wearing apparel it seemed so 

 peculiar that I stopped to secure it under considerable difilculties. 



