8 THE SELOtfS COLLECTION. 



Distinguished from its near ally Symna hymna schillingsi by 

 its smaller size, more indistinct and lighter stripes, and the 

 yellowish bufi colour of the feet. 



Typical locality, Elgeyo Escarpment, Uasin Gishu Plateau, 

 Kenya Colony ; range appears to extend northwards from the 

 Uasin Gishu Plateau and Northern Guaso Nyiro towards Lake 

 Eudolf and Southern Abyssinia. A name has been given to the 

 Striped Hysena from the Northern Guaso Nyiro by Lonnberg *, 

 but according to Roosevelt and Heller f, who had the opportunity 

 of examining a large series of specimens from this locality, there 

 is no difierence of systematic value between the Northern Guaso 

 Nyiro specimens and hergeri. 



6 — 19. 7. 15.8 (sex not recorded). 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro, 



Kenya Colony. 



SOUTH AFRICAN SPOTTED HY^NA. 

 . Cbocuta ceocuta capensis. 



Hyeena capensis, Desmareet, Mamm. vol. i. p. 216, 1820. 

 Crocuta capensis, Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. Suppl. p. 243, 1905. 



Members of this genus are easily distinguished from the 

 Striped Hysenas by the absence of the dorsal mane, smallor ears, 

 and the spotted markings on the body ; the skull is shortei- and 

 wider, and the lower carnassial tooth is without the heel. 



Type locality, Cape Colony. In Cape Colony this hysena 

 is now nearly extinct ; in Zululand and parts of the Transvaal it 

 is still found, and further north it is fairly plentiful. In 1900 

 Matschie J described a Spotted Hysena from the Oi-ange River 

 Colony under the name Sycena (Crocofta) gariepensis ; the 

 following specimens may belong to this race, but there is not suffi- 

 cient material at present available for examination to justify the 

 recognition of this form. 



7 —19.7.15.9. 20 July, 1880. Umfuli Eiver, Mashonalaud, 



Southern Bbodeeia, 



8 —19.7.15.10 (female). October, 1892. Near Pungwe Eiver, 



Mozambique. 



* Hysena schillingsi rendilis, Lonnberg, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, 

 vol. ix. p. 64, 1912 

 t Life-hietories of African Game Animals, vol. i. p. 256, 1915. 

 J Sitzber. Ges. uat. Freunde, 1900, p. 26. 



