CATALOG OF TYPE SPECIMENS OF MAMMALS 453 



162881. Skin and skull. Adult male. Nzoia River, Guas Ngishu 

 plateau, British East Africa [ = Kenya]. November 16, 1909. 

 Collected by Edmund Heller. Original number 1231. 

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



Genus MYOMYS Thomas 

 *Epimys niveiventris ulae Heller. 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 56 (9) : 3, July 22, 1910. 

 =Mi)oynys fumatus fumatus (Peters). See St. Leger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1931 (pt. 3) : 991, Sept. 30, 1931. 



162887. Skin and skull. Adult female. Ulukenia Hills, British 

 East Africa [= Kenya]. November 19, 1909. Collected by J. 

 Alden Loring. Original number 8221. 



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



*Mus tana True. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (16) : 602, Oct. 25, 1893. 

 =Myomys fumatus tana (True). See G. M. Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 83: 

 406, Feb. 1939. 



^^^. Skin, skull, and body in alcohol. Adult female. Along the 



Tana River, between the coast and Hameye, British East Africa 

 [ = Kenya]. November 1892. Collected by William Astor Chan- 

 ler and Ludwig von Hohnel. 



The specimen was originally in alcohol, but at the time the species was 

 described it was made up into a skin, in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



Genus OENOMYS Thomas 



*Oenomys hypoxanthus vallicola Heller. 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 63 (7) : 11, June 24, 1914. 

 = Oenomys bacchante vallicola Heller. See HoUister, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 

 99 (pt. 2) : 66, May 16, 1919. 



162614. Skin and skull. Adult female. Lake Naivasha, British 

 East Africa [ = Kenya]. July 15, 1909. Collected by J. Alden 

 Loring. Original number 6640. 



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



Genus OTOMYS Cuvier 

 *Otomys orestes dollmani Heller. 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 59 (16) : 5, July 5, 1912. 

 — Otomys dollmani Heller. See Hollister, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 99 (pt. 2) : 

 147, May 16, 1919. 



181790. Skin and skull. Adult male. Mount Gargues (Uaragess), 

 altitude 7,000 feet, Mathews Range, British East Africa 

 [ = Kenya]. August 27, 1911. Collected by Edmund Heller. 

 Original number 4125. 



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



