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Zaria,S mi [8.0 km] S, Northern Region (Map ]4: 410). Coordinates: 11°0S'N, Or40'E G (for Kufena Hill; see Remarks). Collectors: D. L. and H.]. Herbert (23-26 Apr, IS May 1966). Habitat: "Huge rock outcropping .... " (DLH). "Guinea savanna" (specimen labels). Remarks: The massive rock dome that looms over flat Guinea Savanna to the south (more accurately the south-southwest) of Zaria immediately attracted H. J. Herbert's attention. While the base camp was maintained at the agricultural station at 15 mi NW Zaria (see locality account), the Herberts regularly visited this rock outcropping that rises "about 600 feet [185 m] from the savanna floor" to run traplines and hunt. D. L. Herbert referred to this locale as "Kofina Rock," which the USBGN (1971) lists as Kufena Hill and which affords the coordinates for this collecting site. Only the distance south of Zaria, not the proper name of the hill, is found on specimen labels and in the field catalog.

Catalog of Type Specimens of Recent Mammals: Orders Didelphimorphia through Chiroptera (excluding Rodentia) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, number 644, viii + 110 pages, 2015.-The type collection of Recent Mammals in the Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, contains 821 specimens bearing names of 810 species-group taxa of Didelphimorphia through Chiroptera, excluding Rodentia, as of June 2014. This catalog presents an annotated list of these holdings comprising 789 holotypes, 26 lectotypes, 11 syntypes (22 specimens), and 4 neotypes. Included are several specimens that should be in the collection but cannot be found or are now known to be in other collections. One hundred and twenty-eight of the names are new since the last type catalog covering these orders, Arthur J.

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