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it is the only one of which a table of skull measurements is given ; third, 

 It is the only specimen taken on Mount Kilimanjaro, the other four 

 coming from Taveta, and the title of the paper reads, "Description of two 

 new species of mammals from Mt. Kilimanjaro, East Africa." 



The designation of the skull as No. 25796 in the original description 

 was due to an error made in the cataloging. It has now been corrected 

 to 34721. 



Genus HETEROHYRAX Gray 



*Heterohyrax brucei albipes Hollister. 4 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 35 : 135, Oct. 17, 1922. • 



181551. Skin and skull. Adult female. Telek River, Loita Plains, 

 British East Africa [ = Kenya]. May 17, 1911. Collected by 

 Edmund Heller. Original number 1816. 

 Well-made skin in good condition; skull Grade A. 



Order INSECTIVORA: Insect Eaters 



Family ERINACEIDAE : Hedgehogs 



Genus ATELERIX Pomel 



*Ermaceus sotikae Heller. 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 56 (15) : 1, Dec. 23, 1910. 

 =Atelcrix alhiventris hindcl (Thomas). See Cabrera, Genera Mammalium, 

 Insectivora, Galeopithecia, p. 67, 1925. 



162112. Skin and skull. Adult male. Southern Guaso Nyiro 

 River, British East Africa [ = Kenya]. June 28, 1909. Collected 

 by J. Alden Loring. Original number 6451. 

 Well-made skin in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



Genus ECHINOSOREX Blainville "';'', 

 *Gymnura gymnura minor Lyon. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 36 : 453, May 27, 1909. 

 —Echinosorex gymnura minor (Lyon). See Cabrera, Genera Mammialium, In- 

 sectivora, Galeopithecia, p. 59, 1925. 



86783. Skin and skull. Adult male. Khow Nok Ram, altitude 

 2,000 feet, Trong, Peninsular Siam. January 12, 1899. Col- 

 lected by W. L. Abbott. 



Well-made skin in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



Genus PODOGYMNURA Mearns . . .-:.:;-,/ 



*Podogymiiura truei Mearns. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 28 : 437, May 13, 1905. 

 125286. In alcohol (skull removed). Adult female. Mount Apo, 

 at 6,000 feet, southern Mindanao, Philippine Islands. June 25, 

 1904. Collected by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number 5667. 

 Alcoholic HI good condition; skull Grade C. . , '^ ' 



