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gives a hint that there possibly may be two geographic races, one darker on the back, 

 more rufous on the feet and more reddish yellow on the under parts, and another more 

 yellowish grey, even with an olive greenish tint on the back, more ochre coloured on the 

 feet and dirty yellowish white on the lower parts. The former should inhabit the interior 

 and the Kilimandjaro district, the latter Usambara, and perhaps the coast district. The 

 limits between these are not sharp, however, and intergrading specimens may be found. 



This squirrel is probably identical with the one which TRUE has recorded as Scium* 

 />ni HXI'H in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1892 p. 467, and he found darker and paler specimens 

 in his material as well. 



In his book on the Saugethiere Ost-Afrikas MATSCHIE uses the name Scin-rux 

 ci i>n i>i (1. c. p. 40) for this same animal, but he describes a related form from Usambara 

 and Tanga under the name Sciurus pauli. This is said to have the Endhalfte des 

 Schwartzes einfarbig sammetsschwarz mit weissen langen Haarspitzen , and this charac- 

 trristic is not to be found in any of the present specimens. None of them presents the 

 slightest trace of a lateral stripe as 8c. ochraceous shall do. More material from different- 

 places and collected at difl'erent times of the year is needed before the question about 

 these small squirrels of East Africa can be settled. 



The following notes about the small squirrel from Kilimandjaro from S.JO- 

 STEDT'S diary may refer to this species. It has a fine repeated neighing sound and a 

 coarser abrupt sound. Usually it sits leaning much forward and the upward curved tail 

 strikes up and down when the squirrel emits its sounds. It may sometimes for a good 

 while sit on a branch in the shadow of the foliage and continue its noise while the whole 

 body trembles and the mouth is widely open. 



Xerns rutilns CRETZSCHMAR. 



Xenix rut H us CRETZSCHMAR, NEUMANN, Zool. Jahrb. Syst. 1900, p. 545. 

 Usambara: 1 specimen from Mombo, June 1906. 



According to Prof. SJOSTEDT the same species was also observed in the acacia 

 forests at Ngare na nyuki (Merit}. 



Graphinrus parvus (TRUE). 



EHomyi* parvus TRUE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 16, 1893 p. 601. 

 Kilianandjaro: 1 specimen from Kibonoto ''/* 1905. 



This specimen agrees well with TRUE'S description except that its size is considerably 

 less, although it is fullgrown to judge from the teeth. The length of head and body 

 is hardly more than 70 mm. and the length of the tail vertebra? 65 mm., but as the skull 

 is broken and there is only one specimen at hand, I have decided to name it as above. 

 The type of (1. /Hiri'ii* was collected somewhere at Tana river, British East Africa. 



(jrairiiiurus iiuirinus (DESM.). 



EUonti/* nnu'i/iHS DESM. MATSCHIE, Saugethiere Ost-Afrikas p. 44. 

 Kilimandjaro: 1 specimen trapped within the cultivated area, Kibonoto, 1,300 

 in. above the sea. l % 1905 -- 1 specimen caught in a hut among rubbish -/* 1905. 



Kilii, until in/ f- Mi in I'^i'juilititin. ','. 4 



