Annals oe the Transvaal Museum. 
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Georychus spec. ? 
When travelling down from the top of the watershed at Oshoek on 
the Swaziland border, my dog captured a small naked Georychus , which 
is of some interest, if not a pathological freak. I thought before skinning 
it that it might possibly be a form of Heterocephalus, and was therefore 
not surprised to find on examining the skull that it had only three teeth ; 
the teeth are apparently young, however, and though fully developed 
it is quite possible that the fourth tooth would have developed later. The 
tail and general appearance is that of an ordinary small-sized Georychus. 
The bristles of the face, feet, and tail are all that there is of hair. The 
skull when compared with that of a young Georychus with three molars, 
captured at Steynsdorp in the valley below, nearly 2000 feet lower than 
the place where the naked specimen was captured, seems to show that 
the Oshoek specimen is older, judging by its angularity, though smaller. 
This specimen may therefore prove to belong to a different species ; but 
as the loss of hair may have been due to some pathological cause, and at 
the same time the growth of the animal may have been retarded, it would 
be unwise to describe it as a species until more specimens are forthcoming. 
We are still largely ignorant of the existence of many species in South 
Africa, and still more ignorant of their habits and distribution, owing 
to their fossorial habits ; but we are hardly likely to find a naked species 
occurring in a cold, moist locality, such as that of Oshoek, where this 
species was obtained, for there can hardly be any doubt that the specific 
loss of hair is due to peculiarly dry conditions of habitat. 
Lepus zuluensis Thos. and Schw. 
1 Steynsdorp, Carolina (A. R.). 
1 <J, juv., Arnhemburg, Carolina (A. R.). 
1 juv., Roodeplaat, Pretoria (A. R.). 
3 1 Rooikrans, Rustenburg (Powell). 
1 9, Wilgekuil, Rustenburg (Powell). 
1 9> Vliegenpoort, Rustenburg (Powell). 
Pronolag us randensis Jameson. 
2 99, 1 <£, Rooikrans, Rustenburg (Powell). 
Hystrix africae-australis Ptrs. 
1 9; juv., Rooikrans, Rustenburg (Powell). 
Procavia capensis Pall. 
4 99, Rooikrans, Rustenburg (Powell). 
1 <?, 1 9> 3 juv., Koperfontein, Rustenburg (Powell). 
1 juv., Vliegenpoort, Rustenburg (Powell). 
The Vliegenpoort specimen is of a reddish colour over the greater 
part of the body, apparently due to staining from the rocks of its habitat 
during the rainy season. Powell states that all the members of the colony 
were similarly coloured. 
Phacochoerus aethiopicus Linn. 
1 9, Kwaggavlakte, Rustenburg (Powell). 
