GENETTA DONGOLANA. 
189 
This specimen was brought to London, where it lived for some years in the Gardens 
of the Zoological Society, and is the animal represented in the Plate. 
Berlin Museum. 
Viverra dongolana, Hemp. & Ehrenb. Nubia. No. 1103. Hemp. & Ehrenb. 
This specimen is very pale, and the spots rusty red. The dorsal stripe is broad and 
nearly black over the rump, but it narrows to a mere line behind the shoulders. There 
is a good deal of black-brown on the lower half of the tibial portion of the leg and on 
the under surface of the hind feet. 
Genetta dougolana., being such a well-marked race, is worthy of recognition. 
Franlifort Museum. 
Viverra abyssinica, Rupp, (type) Neue Wirbeltb. 1835, p. 33, pi. xi. 
Abyssinia. Dr. Riippell, 1834. 
The general ground-colour of this animal is a pale yellowish sandy. A dark brown 
band arises behind each ear, and is prolonged backwards as a broad band, more or less 
broken up into spots over the shoulder. Below it on the side of the neck there is a 
line of large, more or less connected, spots as far as the end of the humerus. On the 
hinder part of the neck, immediately above and before the shoulder, two dark bands 
begin on either side, first as fine lines which rapidly enlarge to about three-quarters of 
an inch in breadth, separated from each other by a narrower band of the ground-colour 
of the animal, and curve backwards to the side of the root of the tail. Hising from 
behind the shoulder in the mesial line of the back, and enclosed by these two lines, is 
a dark dorsal band prolonged to the base of the tail, and in its middle enclosing a narrow 
yellowish band. A number of large spots on the outside of the thighs, the fore limbs 
and the tarsi being unspotted. A few spots on the sides of the belly. The head is 
pale greyish brown, with a white spot below the eye, and continued downwards to the 
lip; a faint dark central band from the nose to between the eyes, and a brownish area 
from the eyes to the nose. The tail with nine yellowish-white and nine broad dark 
brown rings, one of the latter being terminal. Two dark brown spots on either side of 
the base of the tail, separated off from the uppermost of the broad lateral bands. 
'I'his specimen is fully adult, but its sex is not known. 
G. A. Hoskins (‘Travels in Ethiopia,’ 1835, p. 188} says:—“In the neighbourhood 
of Dongola there are many gennet cats. They have small thin heads, long backs of a 
grey colour, with brown spots and a black streak along the centre. Some of them are 
18 inches long, besides the tail which measures 12 inches, the colour of the latter 
being alternately grey and black.” 
Huppell, in his ‘Neue Wirbelthiere,’ p. 33, gives the native name ‘ Sabat ’ for this 
animal in Dongola. 
