EAST AFRICAN MAMMALS IN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



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well as insects; habitually ate mice, rats, 

 or shrews which it found in the traps, and 

 would then come back and itself be readily 

 trapped {Roosevelt and I feller). 

 ^ Giant shrews were common at Lake Nai- 

 vasha, where most of them were caught in 

 the thick reeds and rank grass bordering the 

 lake. One was taken at Nyeri and another 

 on Mount Kenia at an altitude of 10,700 

 feet. They seemed to be as much diurnal as 

 nocturnal, and were captured in traps baited 

 with rolled oats, dried apple, and raw 

 meat. They inhabited the dense parts of 

 the thickets, where the foliage had to be 

 parted and a clearing made for the traps. 

 These localities were the home of a large 

 rat, and many of the rats captured were 

 decapitated or partly eaten by animals that 

 probably were giant shrews. A shrew cap- 

 tured alive was very ferocious and would 

 seize upon anything that came within its 

 reach. When fully excited and lifted into 

 the air by its tail, it would emit a loud shrill 

 chirping note {Loring). 



For measurements see page 44. 



CROCIDURA DAPHNIA Hollister. 



Plate 7, figs. 3, 4. 



1910. Croddura sururx Heller, Smith- 

 sonian Misc. Coll., vol. 56, No. 

 15, p. 3. December 23. (Part, 

 specimen from Gondokoro; not 

 C. sururx Heller, Smithsonian 

 Misc. Coll., vol. 56, No. 15, p. 2.) 



1915. Croddura sururx Dollman, Ann. 



and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 

 15, p. 571. June. (Part, speci- 

 mens from Wadelai and Mon- 

 galla; not of Heller.) 



1916. Croddura daphnia Hollister, 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 

 66, No. 8, p. 1. May. (Gon- 

 . dokoro, Uganda; type in U. S. 

 Nat. Mus.) 



Specimen. — One, the type, as 

 follows : 



Uganda: Gondokoro (Loring). 



This species is quite different 

 from the related 0. sururse of Lado 

 and is evidently separated from the 

 latter by^, the] banierl of the Nile. 



