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7. Report upon a Small Collection of Mammalia brought 

 from Liberia by Mr. Leonard Leighton. By R. I. 

 PococK, F.L.S., Superintendent of the Gardens, 

 (Plate LIY.) 



[Received November 23, 1907.] 



Although the collection forming the subject-matter of this 

 paper is small and consists of fiat, native-prepared headless skins, 

 it is worthy of special notice not only because it was got together 

 in a definite district in a part of Africa of which the fauna is not 

 well known, but also because the skins themselves, with one or 

 two exceptions, belong to species which are not very commonlj^ 

 brought to the Museums of Europe. 



The skins wei-e obtained, Mr. Leighton tells me, in a district 

 from fifteen to twenty miles west of the Putu Mountains, which 

 lie west of the Duobe and Cavally Rivers. The Cavally River is the 

 eastern boundary line between Liberia and the Ivory Coast, and 

 the Duobe is one of its tributaries joining the Cavally about 

 seventy miles, as the crow flies, from its mouth, after running for 

 over one hundred miles nearly parallel to the main stream. 



Two of the species represented, namely Poiana richardsoni and 

 Genetta poensis, have not been previously recorded from Liberia. 

 Judging from the fact that there is only one skin of G. 2)oensis in 

 the British Museum and only one in Mr. Leighton's series, it 

 would appear that this species is of somewhat rare occurrence in 

 the area over which it is distributed. Of Poiana richardsoni, 



* " M. Graelin de Gottingue continue toujours sou edition du Systeme de la 

 ^Nature de Linne ; il vient d'en publier la quatrieme partie qui concerne les insectes " 



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