292 "Report on a Zoological collection [No. 4, 



With the exceptions of Felis caracal and Oxtlophus glan- 

 dabius, the whole of the species would have been new to the 

 Society's museum, had we not just previously received the collection 

 from Dr. Riippell noticed in my Keport for April of this year ;* and 

 which supplied us with examples of Canis yariegatus, Dendro- 



BATES ^THIOPICUS, SaXICOLA ISABELLINA (?), PlATTSTEIRA SENEGA- 



lensis, Nectarinia habessinica, and Pterocles senegalensis : 

 but in all of these instances the examples prepared by Lt. Speke 

 are finer, and he has favoured us with both sexes of the Pterocles. 



As acquisitions of especial interest may be indicated the Hyaena, 

 the Abyssinian Hyrax, the little Salt's Antelope (a particularly 

 fine and well prepared specimen), and the new rodent ; and among 

 birds the Bateleur Eagle, the Hornbill, two species of Promerops 

 (a genus intermediate to Buceros and Upupa), the Chiz.eris, 

 Corvi, Buphaga, Laniarius crttentus, Hyphantornis bagle- 

 eecht, the Basores, new Ploriken, and Chenalopex or ' Egyptian 

 Goose,' of which common African bird we did not previously possess 

 a specimen. 



In proceeding to details, we distinguish by inverted commas some 

 notes obligingly supplied by Lt. Burton. 



MAMMALIA. 



Canis v ablegatus, Riippell. " The Somali Jackal (male), fine 

 and large : probably on account of the quantity of Sheep's tails 

 which he has devoured. He carries off kids and lambs, rather dis- 

 daining garbage ; and unless driven away by dogs, he is capable of 

 doing great damage to the flocks. The Somali call him Bowao,j)j^. ,i 



# HviENA crocuta ? (Erxleben), var. ? Bright fulvous Hysena, 

 with dark spots not very distinct, and a black tail-tip : probably of 

 the race termed H. croctjta rufa by Fischer, and which Dr. Gray 

 refers to H. brttkfea, Thunberg (R. rufa, Cuv., and R. fusca,f 

 Geoffroy), from S. Africa (Pt. Natal) ; but which is not the 

 'Strand Wolf of the Cape colonists (who term the common Spotted 

 Hysena the 'Tiger Wolf), or H. villosa, A. Smith, which Dr. 



* Vide p. 252, ante. 



f This name more probably refers to the specimen in the Paris Museum de- 

 bribed by Cuvier, Oss. Foss. VII, 318 (4th edit }, and which is evidently H. 

 villosa, A. Smith (Lin. Trans. XV, pt. 2, 461,. 



