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terial. It could be expected that the Wart-hogs of these plains should belong to 

 Phacochcerus massaicus Lonnbbrg this is, however, not the case. I had the oppor- 

 tunity of measuring the skull of an adult boar which ha*d been sent to Mr. Klein 

 four mounting. The upper mesial length of this skull from the tip of the nasals to 

 the occipital ridge was about 427 mm.; the interorbital breadth 127 mm.; the width 

 of the parietal flat area 43 mm.; and the distance from the occipital crest to a trans- 

 versal line through the middle of the orbits 75 mm. These measurements prove 

 that the difference from Ph. massaicus is very considerable. The postorbital region 

 is rather long in both, viz. 14 "/o of the length of the head in Ph. massaicus,^ and 15 "/o 

 in the Nairobi skull, but the posterior region of the skull is much narrower in the 

 latter. This is proved by the fact that the interorbital breadth is only 29 °/o of the 

 length of the skull, against 38,8 "/<> in Ph. massaicus, and the width of the parietal 

 flat area is only 10 % against 14,5 "/o in Ph. massaicus. In this respect the Nairobi 

 Warthog is intermediate between Ph. massaicus and Ph. ajricanus celiani in which 

 latter the interorbital breadth is 31,7 °/o, and the width of the parietal flat area is 

 6,3 "/o. This intermediate stage of the Nairobi Warthog appear to indicate its racial 

 distinctness, but for lack of material I cannot express any definite opinion. 



During my stay near Escarpment station in the beginning of January 1911 

 I bought a quite young pig of Wart-hog from the Kedong valley which a Kikuyu 

 brought to my camp. 



Hippopotamidae. 



Hippopotamus amphibius Lin. 



Below Chanler Falls the river Guaso Nyiri was inhabited^ by Hippopotamuses. 

 Spoors were seen now and then on the sand-banks in the river and also on dry land, 

 but the animals were not very numerous in that portion of the river along which I 

 passed. This appears to be quite natural because the river is during the dry season 

 in most places so shallow that the water would not cover a fuUgrown Hippopotamus, 

 and in addition to this, there is hardly any vegetation on which such animals coxild 

 feed. At two occasions, however, I had a very good opportunity of watching such 

 animals. The first time this happened, a »Kibokoj had passed close to the camp 

 just before sunrise. I got information about this and hurried after it. Some little 

 distance above the camp it entered the river again, and when the sun had risen it 

 was found to have taken its refuge to a place where the river was running rather 

 swiftly and with strong current through a narrow canon, where the water accordingly 

 was deep. I sat watching it on a rock opposite, and it lifted its snout regularly to 

 breathe. When I saw that it was an immature specimen 1 did not want to shoot 

 it as it would have been » wanton destruction » , and too much of that kind is to be 



^ Conf. LOnnbeeg: Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1908 p. 937. 

 * Once or twice spoors were also seen above these falls. 



