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Hyaena schillingsi Matschib. 



Matschie: Sitzber. naturf. Freunde. Berlin 1900, p. 55. 



A specimen of Striped Hyena from the Kedong Valley procured for comparisons 

 sake from Mr. Klein at Nairobi agrees perfectly as well in colour as in pattern with 

 Matschie's description of the type and with a specimen from the Kilimanjaro district. 

 Especially the two broad stripes over the hind quarters is a good distinguishing 

 characteristic from the following race. The type locality of this species is the plains 

 around Kilimanjaro but it is evidently widely distributed over the Masai steppe, while 

 the following race takes its place further north. 



Hyaena schillingsi rendilis Lonnberg. 



LOnnberg: Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 8, Vol. IX, p. 64. 



With regard to the dimensions of the skull this Hyena closely resembles the 

 Striped Hyena of the Kilimanjaro district named Hycena schillingsi Matschie.' The 

 width of the palatal opening between the suturce palatopterygoidece is even somewhat 

 narrower (conf. the accompanying table of measurements) than in H. schillingsi and 

 H. hienomelas bergeri Matschie in which two races this measurement is narrower than 

 in all other described races of Striped Hyenas, in which it at least amounts to 21 

 mm, according to Matschie.'' H. hienomelas bergeri differs from this new race in 

 the same points as from H. schillingsi viz. by greater interorbital breadth, greater 

 length of the posterior portion of the head, and the direction of the postorbital 

 processes as. set forth by the author quoted. 



The dimensions of two skulls of H. s. rendilis are recorded in the accompanying 

 table of measurements together with those of a typical H. schillingsi from Kilimanjaro. 



Greatest length of skull 



Basicranial length 



Zygomatic breadth of skull 



Least interorbital breadth 



Least breadth of skull behind postorbital processes 

 Greatest breadth of skull in the occipital region 



Breadth of skull across canines • . . 



Breadth of skull across anterior lateral cusp of p* 

 Distance between bullae at foramina lacera media . 



1 Sitzber. Naturf. Fr. Berlin 1900, p. 55. 

 ^ ibidem Berlin 1910, p. 365. 



