206 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Dimensions (of the type measured in the flesh). Head and body 

 5'75 ; tail 6-50 ; hind foot 1-12. Of a specimen in alcohol : Head 

 and body 5'10 ; tail 6'0 ; hind foot 1-2; skull length 1-50, breadth 

 75 ; molar teeth of upper jaw -25. 



Distribution. The type of this species, collected by J. ff. Darling 

 at Mazoe, in Mashonaland, is in the British Museum, the South 

 African Museum possesses an example from the same locality and 

 collector ; it has also been found near Bulawayo, in the Transvaal, 

 and in Nyassaland. 



MUS AURICOMIS, THE GOLDEN EAT. 



Mus auricomis, DE WINTON, Proc. Zool. Soc., pp. 802, 807 (1896). 



Description. General colour above fawn-yellow, sprinkled with 

 black hairs, lighter on the sides ; below including the hands and feet 

 pure white almost to the bases of the hairs, which are sometimes a 

 pale grey ; ears moderate, naked, save for a few yellow hairs ; tail 

 nearly naked, bi-coloured for the basal portion, brown for the ter- 

 minal portion with a few short adpressed bristles increasing in 

 number and length towards the tip, rings of the tail about 27 to the 

 inch. 



Allied to M. chri/sopJi/ltis, but smaller with almost pure white belly 

 fur and a more golden and less rufous tinge to the sides and upper 

 parts. 



Dimensions (of the type measured in the flesh). Head and body 

 4-44; tail 5-78 ; hind foot -94; skull length 1'22, breadth -59; upper 

 molars -20. 



Distribution. The type of this species was also obtained at 

 Mazoe in Mashonaland by Mr. Darling, and is now in the British 

 Museum. Mr. de Winton records it at the same time from the 

 neighbourhood of Bulaw y ayo, where it was obtained by Mr. Selous. 

 A skin in the South African Museum from Paarl, in the Colony, has 

 been identified by Mr. de Winton with this species. 



MUS PAEDULCUS, WAHLBERG's EAT. 



Muspaedulcus, SUNDEVALL, Oefvers. Akad. Forh. , Stockholm (1846), 

 p. 120 (1847). 



Description. General colour above greyish brown, darker in the 

 middle of the back, greyer on the skies, below pure white with no 

 slaty bases of the fur ; along the back the hairs are fairly soft and 

 thick and have a considerable admixture of black tips ; ears rather 



