Tree Dassie Genus species - Dendrohyrax arborens Family - Procaviidae Order - HYRACOIDEA Example Specimen - 14,449 ♀, 26 Jan, 1949, Perie Forest, King Williams Town, C.P. F.W. Bürger, 490,-, 65, 36. Description Head - above a rusty brown, ears, cheeks a greyish brown (grizzly), whitish grey below. Body - greyish brown, a white Dassie spot, white below. Feet - same as Tree Dassie in form. Heterohyrix syriacus manninge KM- EX- 11559, ♀, 17 July 1946, LiKobula, Ft. of Mlonge Mt, Nyasaland, 2500'-3000', Shortridge, 525,-, 72, 30. Description, Blackish on top head, grey nose, cheeks brownish, lightabunye, chin whitishgrey. Body dark brown, with a yellowish Dassie spot, bellow white, sides greyish brown, feet same. Heterohyrox welwitschii KM-10233, ♀, 8 Sept.1924, Cunene Fells, N.W. Dwomboland, 3350', Shortridge .485,-,63, 30. Description - Hair more coarse and Smithy, a mottled grizzly dark brown with yellow hair tips, brown bases, lighter brown below, small yellow Dassie spot above.