EAST AFRICAN MAMMALS IN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 33 



Genus ELEPHANTULUS Thomas and Schwann. 



1906. Elephantulus Thomas and Schwann, Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 No. 33, p. 10. June. {E. rupeslris.) 



In the' treatment of the forms of the jumping shrews of the genus 

 Elephantulus from British East Africa I have followed Heller's dis- 

 position'of them as races of rufescens,^ although our collection alone 

 does' not in any case show actual intergradation between the various 

 named, forms. 



For measurements of specimens of this genus, see pages 34-35. 



ELEPHANTULUS RUFESCENS RUFESCENS (Peters). 



1878. Macroscelides rufescens Peters, Mon.-ber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wisa. Berlin, 

 p. 198. March. (Ndi, Taita Hills, British East Africa; type in Berlin 

 Museum?) 

 Specimens. — Seven, from the following locahties: 

 British East Africa: Mtoto Andei, 3 (Heller); Voi, 4 (Heller). 

 Heller records on the label of one sldn from Mtoto Andei that the 

 animal was shot on a roadway at 8 o'clock in the morning. In his 

 journal he teUs of seeing several jumping shrews running about in 

 the bright sunshine. A female from the same place, April 3, was 

 pregnant with one large fetus. 



ELEPHANTULUS RUFESCENS MARIAKAN^ Heller. 



Plate 6, fig. 3. 



1912. Elephantulus rufescens marialeanx Heller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 

 60, No. 12, p. 10. November 4. (Mariakaui, British East Africa; type 

 in U. S. Nat. Mus.) 

 Specimens. — Five, from — 

 British East Africa: Mariakani (Heller). 



This is a much less reddish form than true rufescens and is some- 

 what intermediate in color between that form and pliseus of the more 

 interior regions. It is a coast subspecies and its range is separated 

 from that of plixus by the desert country inhabited by rufescens. 



ELEPHANTULUS RUFESCENS PH^US Heller. 



Plate 6, figs. 4, 5. 



1910. Elephantulus pulcher Roosevelt, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., pp. 474, 

 479, and 487; London ed., pp. 485, 491, and 498. (Not of Thomas.) 



1910. Elephantulus phxus Heller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 56, No. 15, 

 p. 8. December 23. (Njoro O Solali, Sotik District, British East Africa; 

 type in U. S. Nat. Mus.) 



Specimens. — Twenty-six, from localities as foUows: 

 British East Africa: Kabalolot HiU, Sotik, 6 (Heller); Lime 

 Springs, Sotik, 3 (Heller); Loita Plains, 1 (Heller); Njoro O Solali, 



1 Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 12, p. 11. Nov, 4, 1912. 

 100468°— 18— Bull. 99 3 



