6 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 10. N:0 12. 



According to the collectors measurements the length of 

 head and body of these 11 specimens varies between 76 and 

 87 mm., the length of the tail between 47 and 56 mm. 



Crocidura turba zaodon Osgood. 

 9 c? c?» 3 $? (and a single skull) from Donya Sabuk ^Vi 



I think that the whole of this series ought to be re- 

 ferred to turba. Many of them are also large enough to 

 correspond to Osgood's subspecies zaodon. According to 

 the collectors measurements (written on the label) some speci- 

 mens appear to have had somewhat smaller dimensions than 

 the diagnose of C. t. zaodon admits. In some cases this 

 discrepancy may be due to a mistake, but this is not always 

 the case. I think therefore that the limits of the variation 

 in size of this shrew are wider than Osgood's material indi- 

 cated, and that therefore the average size is smaller. The 

 smallest specimen in this collection is stated to have mea- 

 sured head and body 74 mm., tail 55 mm., while Osgood 

 puts the minimum to resp. 89 and 56 mm. 



The type locality of C. t. zaodon is Nairobi, and the pre- 

 sent collection has thus been made not very far from this place. 

 The difference must even for this matter be of only little 

 importance. 



These two dark species of shrews, which now have been 

 mentioned, appear to be quite dominating at Donya Sabuk 

 as no specimen of the more brownish species is to be found 

 in the present collection. 



Paraxerus jacksoni De Winton. 



9 c? c? and 4 ?? from Donya Sabuk ^i/i— is/^ 1914. 



The members of this very fine and interesting series 

 appear to be more richly coloured (especially on the feet 

 and lower parts) than the scrub-squirrels which I had the 

 opportunity of collecting as well in the Kikuyu-country as 

 at Meru some years before, but at the same time they dis- 

 play a certain amount of variability, which proves, how 

 difficult it is to establish races or species of squirrels on 

 differences in colour. 



