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Sotik, 3 (Loring) ; Southern Guaso Nyiro, 8, 

 including 5 in alcohol (Heller, Loring) ; Telek 

 River, Sotik, 5 (Heller). 



Heller records, on the labels of specimens, 

 one embryo each in females collected as 

 follows: Kabalolot Hill, April 30, May 4; 

 Loita Plains, April 27; and Telek River, 

 May 20. 



This is the darkest race of Eleplmntulus rep- 

 resented in our collections from East Africa. 



Roosevelt and Heller speak of this jump- 

 ing shrew as follows:^ 



Fairly common tlirougliout British East Africa in 

 bush and on hills, not in deep forests or on bai-e plains. 

 Often out at dusk, but generally nocturnal. A gravid 

 female contained a single embiyo. One in a trap had 

 its mouth full of partly masticated brown ants. A 

 gentle thing, without the fierceness of the true shrews. 

 Trapped in runways of Arvlcanthis. 



Loring, in Appendix C of Roosevelt's 

 African Game Trails, has the following notes 

 on this form: 



Both diurnal and nocturnal. While riding over the 

 country I frequently saw them darting through the 

 runways from one thicket to another. Nearly every 

 clump of bushes and patch of rank vegetation in the 

 Sotik and Naivasha districts was traversed with well- 

 worn trails, used by different species of Mus and 

 shrews. The elephant shi-ews were most common on 

 the dry flats, where clumps of fiber plants grew, and 

 their trails usually led into some thorny thicket and 

 finally entered the ground. 



ELEPHANTULUS RUFESCENS DUNDASI Dollman. 



1910. Elephantulus dundasi Dollman, Ann, and 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 5, p. 95. 

 January. (Harich, near Lake Baringo, 

 British East Africa; type in British Mus.) 



1912. [Elephantulus rufescens] dundasi Heller, 

 Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 12, 

 p. 11. November 4. 



S'pecimens. — Three, from locahties as fol- 

 lows: 



British East Africa : North Loroghi, 1 

 (Percival) ; Nyama Nyango, Northern Guaso 

 Nyiro, 2 (Percival). 



I Roosevelt, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p. 479; London ed., 

 p. 491. 1910. 



