THE ANiNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATIJEAL HISTOEY. [SEVENTH SERIES.] No. 78. JUNE 1904. XLVIII. — Oil Mammals from Northern Angola collected hy Dr. W. J. Ansorge. By Oldfield Thomas. During 1903 Ihe well-known collector Dr. W. J. Ansorge, to whom the British Museum is already indebted for series of specimens from British East Africa^ Uganda, and Nigeria, made a collecting-trip to Northern Angola, and obtained about two hundred specimens belonging to forty-six species, and of these a complete set has been acquired for the Museum. The mammalogy of Angola has hitiierto remained almost entirely in the hands of the Portuguese, as represented — most admirably — by Prof. Barboza du Bocage in Lisbon and by M. Anchieta and other collectors in the country under con-sideration. Thanks to the enlightened generosity of Prof. Bocage many institutions, and notably the British Museum, had received specimens representing the species discovered in Angola by the Portuguese naturalists, and on these specimens such comments on the Angolan fauna as have been made by Gray, de Winton, myself, and others have been based. But these specimens, valuable as they have proved to be, have been all preserved in spirit, and the freshly made skins obtained by Dr. Ansorge are therefore of very great interest for comparison with similarly made specimens from other regions of Africa. Complete as have been Prof. Bocage's researches on the Ann. ^' Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xiii. 28
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