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Genus PELOMYS Peters 



*Pelomys fallax iridescens Heller. 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 59 (16) : 12, July 5, 1912. 

 181801. Skin and skull. Adult male. Mount Mbololo, altitude 

 5,000 feet, Taita Mountains, British East Africa [ = Kenya]. 

 November 5, 1911. Collected by Edmund Heller. Original 

 number 4620. 



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



Genus POEMYS Thomas 



*Dendromys nigrifrons True. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 15 : 462, Oct. 26, 1892. 

 — Poemys nigrifrons (True). See Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 8) 

 18 : 238, Aug. 1916. 



^^I^, Alcoholic, with skull removed. Adult female. Mount 



35263 ' 



Kilimanjaro, altitude 5,000 feet, German East Africa [ = Tan- 

 ganyika Territory]. November 1889. Collected by W. L. 

 Abbott. Original number 10. 



Alcoholic in fair condition. A few small bare spots, the under side 

 extensively cut open to remove skull, and then sewed up; skull Grade A. 



No type designated by number. A skull is figured and marked "typical 

 specimen." An examination of the five specimens collected by Abbott shows 

 that the figured skull is No. 35263 ; consequently the specimen to which 

 it belongs may be regarded as the type. 



*Dendromus spectabilis Heller. 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 56 (17) : 3, Feb. 28, 1911. 

 =Poeinys nigrifrons spectabilis (Heller). See Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



(ser. 8) 18: 238, Aug. 1916; and Hollister, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 99 (pt. 2) : 



54, May 16, 1919. 

 164815. Skin and skull. Adult female. Rhino Camp, Lado, 



Uganda, Africa. January 18, 1910. Collected by J. Alden 



Loring. Original number 8783. 



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



Genus PRAOMYS Thomas 

 *Mus peromyscus Heller. 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 52: 472, Nov. 13, 1909. 



=Praoniys tullhergi peromyscus (Heller). 



161905. Skin and skull. Adult male. Njoro O Nyiro, Sotik, Brit- 

 ish East Africa [ = Kenya]. June 9, 1909. Collected by 

 Edmund Heller. Original number 1011. 

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



