1892.] MR. p. L. SCLA.TER. ON MAMMALS FROM NYASSALAND. 97 



4. Ou a small Collection of Mammals brought by Mr. A. 

 Sharpe f rom Nyassaland. By Philip Lutley Sclater, 

 M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. 



[Received January 13, 1892.] 



Mr. Alfred Sharpe, H.B.M. Vice-Consul for Nyassaland, has 

 kindly shown to me a collection of hunters' skins and horns of 

 Mammals formed during his recent stay in the Shire Highlands and 

 in other parts of that territory. 



A selection of these I have the pleasure of exhibiting this evening, 

 and I have written a few notes upon them. 



1. COLOBUS ANGOLENSIS, Scl. 



Colobus angolensis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 246, 1880, p. 68; 

 Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. ser. 2, i. p. 9. 



Colobus palliatus, Peters, Monatsb. Berl. Ak. 1868, p. 637, 1879, 

 p. 8.30, t. iv. a. 



A flat skin of a fine adult example of this species with the elon- 

 gated white hairs on the shoulders well developed, as shown in 

 Peters's excellent figure of this well-marked species {op. cit. 18/9, 

 pi, iv. a). 



Mr. Sharpe informs me that this skin was obtained at the north 

 end of Nyassa in the Konde country. 



2. Cercopithecus pluto, Gray, P. Z. S. 1848, p. 56, Mamm. 

 pi. 3. 



A flat skin of this species, which, like Colobus angolensis, was 

 originally described from Angola. It is from the interior, on the 

 west side of Lake Nyassa. 



3. ViVERRA civETTA, Schrcb. 



4. Genetta tigrina (Schreb.) ; Bocage, op. cit. p. 177. 



Flat skins of both these species, which appear to be abundant in 

 the Shire Highlands and all along the coast of Nyassa. 



5. Herpestes albicauda, G. Cuv. ; Thomas, P. Z. S. 1882, 

 p. 75; Bocage, op. cit. p. 180. 



Mr. O. Thomas has kindly named this skin for me. This Her- 

 pestes is a wide-ranging species in Eastern Africa, extending from 

 Upper Nubia to Natal. The present specimen was obtained on the 

 route between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Mocro. 



6. SciURUs MUTABiLis, Pctcrs, Reise n. Mossamb., Zool. i. 

 p. 131. 



The single flat skin of this Squirrel has likewise passed under 

 Mr. Thomas's supervision. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1892, No. VIL 7 



