ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTION OF MAMMALS IN THE 
TRANSVAAL MUSEUM, 
By Austin Roberts. 
Catalogues of the collection of African Mammals have already been 
published in the preceding Volume of the Annals (Vol. IV, pp. 65-109 
and pp. 180-186), and in view of so little having been recorded of South 
African Mammals, I propose to continue to publish annual lists of 
acquisitions. During the year ending 31st December, 1914, as much 
time as could be put into the service was devoted to field work by the 
writer. Six weeks was spent between Carolina, Barberton, and Nelspruit, 
in the Eastern Transvaal, in May and June, when forty-three mammals, 
besides double the number of birds, were preserved ; four days were spent 
at Zoutpan in the “ Bushveld” of Pretoria District in October, in company 
with the director, Dr. H. G. Breyer, and Messrs. H. L. Hare, J. Breyer 
and J. Jorissen, when twelve mammals besides twenty birds (kindly 
skinned by Mr. Hare) and other specimens were collected. In December 
eight days were spent at Moorddrift, a siding on the Pretoria-Pietersburg 
Railway line, and some ten miles south of Pietpotgietersrust, when thirty- 
six small mammals and eleven clutches of birds’ eggs were taken ; and 
finally a week was spent at Woodbush, when about a dozen more 
mammals and six birds were secured. Besides these collections, a few 
specimens were captured in the vicinity of Pretoria and a few were 
collected and donated by gentlemen interested in the study. 
An expedition was also made by the director, Dr. Breyer, to the 
Maputa River in Portuguese South-east Africa, and then by the first 
assistant, Mr. C. J. Swierstra, to Northern Zululand, when, on both 
occasions, the taxidermist, Mr. Noome, was able to obtain and prepare for 
mounting a good set of specimens of large mammals, a separate list of 
which is given. 
At some future date an account of the habits and distribution of 
most of the smaller species will be published. 
The following is a systematic list of additions in mammals to the 
collection during the year : — 
Galago moholi A. Smith. 
1 (J, Moorddrift, Waterberg District. 
Epomopliorus ivahlbergi lialdemani Hallowell. 
1 old Barberton. 
This specimen was found hanging to creepers in a gully in the town 
of Barberton ; there seemed to be no others about, though I searched 
assiduously, as from my previous experience I had always found these 
fruit-bats congregated in parties in the trees. It is strange that this 
smaller race, which has not previously been recorded south of the 
Zambesi, should occur in the same region as the larger typical race ; but 
I have no doubt as to its identification, the skull indicating the age of the 
specimen, while all the measurements are those of the smaller race. 
Both the typical and this smaller race are said to occur side by side in 
East Africa (see Andersen, “ Megachiroptera,” p. 525). Jameson [Ann. 
