222 MB. SCLATER ON MAMMALS E'EOM UGANDA. [Mar. 19, 



(6) Beddaed. — " Two new G-enera and some new Species of 



Earthworms." Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci. xxxiv. p. 271. 



(7) Beddaed. — A Monograph of the Oligochgeta. Oxford, 1895. 



(8) Geube.— Arch. f. Naturg. 1855, p. 129. 



(9) MicHAELSBN. — Das Tierreich, 10th Lief., Oligochaeten, 1900, 



p. 465. 

 (10) DB EiBAUCOUET. — Etude sur la Faune Lombricide de la 

 Suisse, 1896. 



March 19, 1901. 



Dr. Hbney Woodwaed, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on some specimens of 

 Mammals from Uganda recently received from Sir HaiTy Johnston, 

 K.C.B., who had written to call his special attention to these 

 objects. 



The principal specimen was a complete skin and skull of the 

 Chimpanzee of Eastern Africa, concerning which Sir Harry had 

 written to Mr. Sclater as follows : — 



" Entebbe, Uganda, 



Oct. 18, 1900. 



"I have at last succeeded in getting a Chimpanzee from the 

 Uganda Protectorate. I had long heard from the natives that 

 this ape was found in Unyoro and Toru ; but although I visited 

 several forests in company with Doggett we never succeeded in 

 getting specimens, though we occasionally thought we heard this 

 animal's peculiar cries. At last, however, the natives succeeded in 

 capturing one ... a nearly full-grown female . . . which they sent 

 on to me at Entebbe soon after my return here. The animal 

 arrived alive. It was of immense strength and rather savage. 

 After it had been taken out of its temporary cage and had been 

 secured by means of thick wire collars and a heavy chain, it 

 nevertheless managed to wrench itself free and escaped into a 

 tree. There Avas no time for sentiment, and so I had the animal 

 shot then and there. We have photographed it, and I am now 

 sending you its skin and bones. The animal looks to me slightly 

 different to the West Coast Chimpanzee, the difference being in 

 the much reduced size of the canines (even though it be a female), 

 the larger size of the middle incisors, and the length of the face. 

 The colour of the bare skin of the face and nose when the animal 

 was living was a dark purple-brown, which faded to a dirty yellow 

 after death. It was certainly much darker-skinned when living 

 than the average West Coast Chimpanzee. 



" The locality where this animal was obtained is the central or 

 eastern part of the Toru District, about 30 miles east of Euwen- 

 zori, on the Durra Eiver, a small stream which flows into the 

 north end of Lake Euisamba. Lake Euisamba is connected with 

 Lake Albert Edward. I have visited the locality where this Chim- 



