KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 48. N:o 5. 59 
Hy2&ena schillingsi MATsCHIE. 
MaArscur: WSitzber. naturf. Freunde. Berlin 1900, p. 55. 
A specimen of Striped Hyena from the Kedong Valley procured for comparisons 
sake from Mr. KLEIN at Nairobi agrees perfectly as well in colour as in pattern with 
MaATSCHIE”s description of the type and with a specimen from the Kilimanjaro district. 
Especially the two broad stripes over the hind quarters is a good distinguishing 
characteristic from the following race. The type locality of this species is the plains 
around Kilimanjaro but it is evidently widely distributed over the Masai steppe, while 
the following race takes its place further north. 
Hy&na schillingsi rendilis LÖNNBERG. 
LÖNNBERG: Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 8, Vol. IX, p. 64. 
With regard to the dimensions of the skull this Hyena closely resembles the 
Striped Hyena of the Kilimanjaro distriet named Hycna schillingsi MATSCHIE.? The 
width of the palatal opening between the suture palatopterygoidee is even somewhat 
narrower (conf. the accompanying table of measurements) than in H. schillingsi and 
H. hienomelas bergeri MATSCHIE in which two races this measurement is narrower than 
in all other described races of Striped Hyenas, in which it at least amounts to 21 
mm. according to MaATSCHIE.” H. Menomelas bergeri differs from this new race in 
the same points as from H. schillingsi viz. by greater interorbital breadth, greater 
length of the posterior portion of the head, and the direction of the postorbital 
processes as set forth by the author quoted. 
The dimensions of two skulls of H. s. rendilis are recorded in the aceompanying 
table of measurements together with those of a typical H. schillingsi from Kilimanjaro. 
| | Hyena from north of | Hyena ; 
| Guaso Nyiri | schillingsi 
| | = = I from Kili- 
| | (Oj 2 | manjaro 
| lg : 
| mm. mm. mm: 
IM GTeatostilen othEO fest a on ASS ak n JG fet sker septalin lsd fanken . 234 | 197 228 
IiBasicranial length: « « so. = & fa boj se 40 de SENS SONEN OTO IDE RR 200065 I 173 195 
Ziygomatierbreadbit Ofskull i oc 0 cr so sd 6 cc sus Bla a Ke 5 a SNES SN RS 148,5 | 117 144 
Least interorbital breadth ... « sh . s s 0 » . « SES ee SÄPT ed ere eg 48,5 38 44.5 
| Least breadth of skull behind postorbital processes . . . . . . OP ERT STEN 38 | 36 | 34 
| Greatest breadth of skull in the occipital region . . « .. . .- . . - HF 81 | 73 79 
| Breadth of skull across canines ...... FÖRSTA GES IG OT BUR DRIOd Or EG 50 | 45 51 
Breadth of skull across anterior lateral cusp of p!' . ..... . . .. SIS 83 | 73 | 83 
22,5 | 22 21 
| Distance between bulle at foramina lacera Media . = sr rr sr so ros 
1! Sitzber. Naturf. Fr. Berlin 1900, p. 55. 
? ibidem Berlin 1910, p. 365. 
