6 MR. O. THOMAS ON MAMMALS FROM [Jan. 17, 



in so far as it shows the constancy at different ages of the peculiar 

 coloration to which the name of F. servalina has been applied. 

 The specimen has lost its label, but is no doubt one of the Mon- 

 buttu series. 



5. Felis caligata, Temm. 



a.S' Tingasi, Monbuttu, 16/10/83. 



b. cJ . Stat. Gadda, 14/5/84. 



c. Juv. 



" Iride fulva. Lives in the woods. Monbuttu name • Nango ' 

 or ' Kao.' "— E. 



[Felis caligata domestxcata. 



a. Ladb. 12/83. 

 "Bastard between F. caligata r? and F. domestica 2 ." — E.] 



6. Genetta tigrina, Schr. 



a, b. 2 and juv. Lado, 5/12/8i>. 



" Caught with three young in its nest. A severe biter, and a 

 great enemy to poultry. Ejected a fetid fluid on capture." — E. 



I only use the above name provisionally, until the species of 

 Genets are properly worked out, which will probably result in the 

 union of nearly all the so-called different species. 



7. POIANA RICHARDSONI, ThompS. 



a. Juv. 

 An immature individual of this exceedingly rare and interesting 

 species quite agrees with the typical specimen in the Museum col- 

 lection. It is unfortunate that its label has been torn off, so that its 

 exact locality is unknown ; but as the species is a strictly West- 

 African one, having only hitherto been recorded from Fernando Po 

 and Sierra Leone, it was, no doubt, obtained in the Monbuttu district, 

 where the whole of the purely West-African species were collected. 



8. Crossarchus zebra, Riipp.* 



a. d. Tingasi, 1/7/83. 



b. cJ. Stat. Gadda, 18/1/84. 



c. c?. Stat. Gadda, 20/1/84. 



" Iride fusco-flava. ' Ndoto ' (Monbuttu)." — E. 



Notes on the habits in Marungu of the closely allied C. fasciatus, 

 Desm., have been recorded by Dr. Noack^ from the note-books left 

 by Dr. Bohm. 



Of the species labelled as occurring in Monbuttu, this is absolutely 

 the only one of a distinctly Abyssinian character. It is, however, a 



^ In connection with this species, I may take the opportunity of correcting 

 an unfortunate misprint in my paper on tbe African Mungooses (P. Z. S. 

 1882, p. 87), where, in the synopsis of species (lines 22 and 24), the lengths of 

 the fourth premolar in 0. zebra and C. fasciattis have been transposed, as an 

 examination of the detailed descriptions would show. It is C. fasciatus that 

 has its premolar "more than 8 milhm." and C. zebra "less than 7 niilhm " 

 . =" r. c. p. 253. 



