54 BULLETIN 99, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Lado: Rhino Camp (Lorii :g, Meariis). 



This small, blackish race of turha is apparently confined to the 

 western side of the Nile; all the skins from the Uganda shores are 

 referable to the wide ranging subspecies zaodon. 



CROCIDURA TURBA ZAODON Osgood. 



Plate 8, figs. 5, fi. 



1910. Crocidum turha zaodon Osgood, Field Mus., Zool. Ser., vol. 10, No. 3, p. 21. 



April 7. (Nairobi, British East Africa; type in Field Mus. Nat. Hist.) 

 1910. Crocidura turha provocax Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hiat., ser. 8, vol. 6, 



p. 112. July, (xiberdare Mts., British East Africa; type in British 



Museum.) 

 1912. Crocidura turha lakiiindx Heller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 12, 



p. 6. November 4. (Lakiunda River, near its junction with the 



Northern Guaso Nyiro Paver, British East Africa; type in U. S. Nat. 



Mus.) 



Specimens. — Ninety-nine, includhig 46 in alcohol, from localities as 

 follows : 



Uganda: Biitiaba, 4 (Loring, Heller); Gondokoro, 1 (Loring); 

 Hoima, 1 (Loring); Kampala, 1 (Loring); Kabula Muliro, 2 (Loring); 

 Ledgus, 1 (Loring). 



British East Africa : Aberdare Mountains, 5 (Heller); Ai'cher's 

 Post, Northern Guaso Nyiro, 2 (Heller); Fort Hall, 2 (Loring); 

 Isiola River, head, 2 (Heller); Kaimosi, 32 (Heller); Kakumega, 



I (Heller) ; Eababe, 2 (Heller) ; Kisumu, 1 (Heller) ; Laikipia Plateau, 

 15 miles north of Nyeri, 1 (Heller); Lakiunda River, 11 (Heller); 

 Lukosa River, 1 (Heller); Meru, 1 (Heller); Mount Kenia, west slope. 



II (Heller, Loring); Mount Miololo, 1 (Heller); Mount Sagalla, 4 

 (Heller); Mount Um en go, 1 (Heller); Naivasha Plains, 2 (Heller); 

 Nyangnori, 1 (Heller); Nzoia River, Guas Ngishu Plateau, 4 (Heller); 

 Sirgoit, 2 (Heller); Sirgoit Lake, 2 (Heller). 



A careful study of this excellent snite of specimens from widely 

 separated parts of Uganda and British East Africa shows that while 

 there is considerable variation in size and color these variations are 

 by no means geographic, and that onl}^ one subspecies can be recog- 

 nized from within this area. A moment's study of the accompanying 

 table of measurements will show that length of tail and size of hind 

 foot are characters of no importance for separating races in the 

 Aberdares or Northern Guaso Nyiro from true zaodon of Nairobi or 

 from the specimens taken in Uganda. The Gondokoro and Ledgus, 

 Uganda, specimens can be almost exactly matched by skins in the 

 series from the mountains in extreme southeastern British East 

 Africa (Sagalla, Umengo, and Mbololo). While the majority of the 

 skins are in the lighter brownish pelage usual to the race, there are 

 specimens in the fresh, rich, dark, seal-browni coat Gike the type) 

 from many localities. Two alcoholic specimens from Butiaba, 



