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ON MAMMALS FROM BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. [May 2, 



too well known to need description ; it is sufficient to say that 

 no two .skins are alike in pattern. 



Tliis species ranges in suitable localities from the extreme south 

 of the Continent up the eastern side to Abyssinia ; in the more 

 Central part of the Continent specimens of it from Lake Mweru 

 have been obtained by Mr. Eicbard Crawshay, and Schweinfurth 

 has recorded it from Bongoland. 



Pig. 13. 



Skull oi Lycaon pictus, \ nat. size. (B.M. 1141a.) 



I have particularly mentioned Le Vaillaut's name in the 

 synonymy, to draw attention to the work of that naturalist, whose 

 observations on the habits and measurements of the mammals of 

 South Africa are among the best and most accurate that have been 

 published up to now. It has been the fashion to treat this 

 traveller with disrespect; but bis observations on mammals are 

 excellent, and it is to be regretted that he did not carry out his 

 promise of writing a special account of them. 



May 2, 1899. 

 Prof. G-. B. Howes, LL.D., F.E.S., F.Z.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited specimens of some Mammals, mostly 

 obtained by the collectors in the employment of the Administra- 

 tion of British Central Africa who accompanied the Commission 

 for the Delimitation of the Anglo-German Boundary across 

 the Nyasa-Tanganyika plateau in 1898. They had been kindly 

 examined by Mr. W. E. de Winton, and referred to the following 

 species : — 



1. Rhynchocyon, reichardi Eeichenow. 

 Two specimens. 



