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are not so strongly marked as in H. schillingai and are, especially in the older spe- 

 cimen, more broken up into spots. The ground colour of the legs is paler than in 

 H. schillingsi. The hind legs of the older specimen is pale ashy grey without any 

 brownish tint in strong contrast to a H. schillingsi of similar age. The feet are pale 

 earth brown. The chin is blackish and the large black patch on the under side of 

 the neck is also present but the interspace between these two areas is light hoary 

 grey, not brownish grey as in H. schillingsi. 



Prom this description may be seen that almost every part of the body is dif- 

 ferently coloured to the corresponding part of H. schillingsi, and sometimes the pattern 

 as well is somewhat different. This difference is of course not very deep-going, but 

 on the other hand sufficient to prove the existence of a separate geographic race. 

 Only two specimens have been at my disposal but as one of them is a young adult 

 female and the other a male, and both are closely alike I think the reliability of the 

 description is warranted by this. 



The specimens mentioned were caught in the thornbush country north of Guaso 

 Nyiri where Striped Hyenas appeared to be rather common but by no means easy 

 to catch. 



In Nairobi I had the opportunity of seeing three skulls of Proteles from » Nor- 

 thern Guaso Nyiri » but unfortunately we had no opportunity of securing any speci- 

 mens ourselves. 



Viverridae. 



Genetta dongolana Hempr. & Ehkenb. 



Hempbicht & Eheenbeeg: Symb. Phys. 1832, I, 2. 



When reviewing the Genets in the year 1902 Matschie^ divided the species 

 with shaggy tail and black marks on the hind legs in two groups one with »Sohlen 

 der Vorderfiisse schwarz>, and the other with »Sohlen der Vorderfiisse nur wenig 

 dunkler als deren Oberseite». In either of these groups one species from North 

 Eastern Africa is recorded viz. in the latter the Nubian Genet, Genetta dongolana 

 Hempr. & Ehrenb., and in the fbrmer a »Weissfiissige Genette, 0. spec, von Harar 

 in Nordostafrika*. The latter was shortly afterwards named »(?. harar ensis^ by Neu- 

 mann^ who, however, did not add anything of value to Matschie's notes in his 

 »key». In the »Zoology of Egypt» by Anderson and de Winton a Genet from 

 Suakin is carefully described under the name of ^Genetta dongolana Hempr. & Ehrenb.*" 

 but this specimen is said to have »the under surface of the fore feet black*. By 



1 Verh. d. V. Internat. Zoologenkongress. Nachtr., p. 1128—1144. Berlin 1902. 

 ^ Sitzber. Naturf. Freunde. Berlin 1902, p. 183. 

 ^ L. c. Mammalia, p. 188, 



