40 EINAR LONNBBRG, MAMMALS COLLECTED IN CENTRAL AFRICA. 



Papio tessellatus Elliot. 



1 J ad., 1 c?semiad., 1 c? juv. V«; 1 ? ad. V,; 1 ? ad. "/,; 1 ^ pull. '/« 1913, Rutshuru; 

 1 c? ad. killed in a forest near Rutshuru ''/, 1914; 1 J^ ad. killed in »foret et montagne 

 Kabwe, Rutshuru '7, 1914. 



Named »Kabula» in kisuahili. 



The Baboons which constitute this very interesting and valuable series have been 

 collected not very far from the type locality (Mulema, Nkole, Uganda) of Papio tessellatum{ ! ) 

 Elliot. This Baboon has later been stated from Kagera as well, according to Heck.^ 

 It could therefore be expected that the Baboons of Rutshuru should belong to this race. 

 The cranial measurements of Elliot's type ( )>a very large animal ») agree quite well 

 with the corresponding ones of the adult males in this collection as the accompanying 

 table of measurements indicates, but the colour of the Nkole Baboon as described by 

 Elliot differs from that of the present specimens to some degree. He says: »Hairs 

 throughout on head, neck and body seal brown, with a broad subterminal band of a 

 darkish cream color and tips black ». This description suits the female and semiadult 

 specimens of this series with the exception that the colour of the subterminal rings of 

 the hairs on the hind quarters exhibit a brighter shade than )>cream » and approach more 

 to »ochraceous buff » of Redgway's nomenclature. This is still more the case with regard 

 to the males in which only the rings on the head and neck might be termed »darkish 

 cream coloured », but on the back and hind quarters the corresponding parts tend more 

 to )>ochraceous buff » or even )>antimony yellow ». On the outer side of the arms and legs 

 the colour of the pale rings dominates. The hands and feet of the adult males are black 

 with some sprinkling of the light rings visible. In the females and young males the hands 

 are black, in the former somewhat mixed with brownish. The feet of the young males 

 are mixed brownish black and »buffy brown », and those of the females still paler as they 

 also are more or less mixed with the colour of the legs derived from the pale rings of 

 the hairs. 



The quite young animal, which is the palest of all, has the hands blotched with 

 black, but the feet only dark brown at the toes. 



The »checkered appearance)), about which Elliot speaks, is less visible in the old 

 males than in the females. In the latter and in the young males the black tips to the hairs 

 also form black blotches on the crown of the head. 



The tail of this Baboon is rather short measuring in an adult male 41,5 cm. without 

 hair, or with the hairs 49 cm. In the adult female it is only 31,5 cm. with the about 3 cm. 

 long hairs at the tip. 



The above mentioned differences in colour between these adult specimens and 

 Elliot's type of P. tessellatus are probably due to the latter having the originally och- 

 raceous and yellow rings faded. 



In the adult male skulls from Rutshuru the nasals are as Elliot describes them 

 in the type: »rounded and raised above the plane of the rostrum (PL VII, fig. 4). The 



1 Bebhm's Tierleben, Saugetiere, Bd. IV. 



