Manchester Memoirs, Vol. li. (1907), No. 5< 



V. On a Collection of Mammals made by Mr. S. A. 

 Neave in Rhodesia, North of the Zambesi, with 

 Field Notes by the Collector. 



By R. C. Wroughton. 



(Communicated by Dr. W. E. Hoyle, F.R.S.E) 

 Received November 1 6th, igo6. Read January 2gth, IQOJ. 



The area in which Mr. Neave collected may be 

 divided into two portions. The first, lying in the Valley 

 of the Loangwa River, for the most part in the Basenga 

 Country, on the East bank of that river. The forms 

 found here are closely related to those found in Nyasa 

 and Mashonaland — the more northern more closely to 

 the former and the more southern to the latter. The 

 second part of Mr. Neave's collecting ground lies East 

 and West along the common boundary of Rhodesia and 

 the Congo Free State, from the Mchinga Escarpment in 

 the East to the new Rhodesian Station of Ndola on the 

 Kafue River in the West. 



It is amongst the forms from this area that those 

 occur for which it has been found necessary to find new 

 names in this paper. The general relationship of this 

 fauna is undoubtedly with that of West, rather than of 

 East Africa, but at the same time there seem to be quite 

 a number of forms showing a curious resemblance to 

 those found on the high plateau between Lakes Nyasa 

 and Tanganyika. 



Besides the specimens which have been examined and 

 compared with those in the National Collection, there are 

 a certain number which, on account of their bulk or for 



March 13th, igoy. 



