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Uganda, arc chiefly in an old, decidedly reddish coat, quite unlike 

 others, but show the new dark coat on head and shoulders. 



The two specimens from Uganda (Gondokoro and Kampala) 

 referred by Heller ^ to his Crocidura mutesse clearly belong here rather 

 than with the type of mutesse; and the specimens from Uganda 

 (Butiaba, Hoima, and Kabula Muliro) which were referred by Heller ^ 

 to niloiica seem to me to belong without question to zaodon, though 

 approaching the smaller and darker niloiica in one character, the 

 shortness of the fur. 



Still another East African race of turba has been described by 

 Dollman ^ from Kirui, Moimt Elgon, as Crocidura turha Icempi. No 

 topotypes of this form are in our collection, but specimens from the 

 Guas Ngishu Plateau, which should represent it, are indistinguishable 

 from zaodon. 



A female collected by Heller at Ejbabe, January 20, contained 

 three embryos; and one from Kaimosi, January 29, two embryos. 



For measurements of specimens of the subspecies of O. iurha see 

 table, page 52. 



CROCIDURA FUMOSA FUMOSA Thomas. 



Plate 8, figs. 7, 8. 



190i. Crocifhiru/amosa Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 14, p. 238. 



September. (Western slope of Mt. Kenia, British East Africa; type in 



British Museum.) 

 1910. Crocidura finnosa Roosevelt, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., pp. 474 and 



479; London ed., pp. 486 and 491. 

 1910. Crocidura alchemillse Heller, Roosevelt's African Game Trails, Amer. ed. 



p. 480; London ed., p. 491. (Summit of Aberdare Range, British East 



Africa; type in U. S. Nat. Mus.) 



t pecimens. — One hundred and twenty-eight, from localities as follows : 

 British East Africa: Aberdare Moimtains, 4 (Heller); Fort Hall, 

 8 (Loring); Nyeri, 1 in alcohol (Loring); upper Nzoia River, 4 in 

 alcohol (Heller); west side of Mount Kenia, 111, including 20 in alco- 

 hol (Loring, Mearns, Heller). 



After careful study of this fine series of specimens, I am unable to 

 recognize as distinct the smoky shrew of the Aberdare Mountains. 

 While there is considerable individual variation in color, true fumosa 

 is usually recognizable from the grayer scliistacea and the darker, more 

 blackish, selina by color alone. The skulls of typicol fumosa average 

 smaller than those of the more southern and western subspecies, and 

 are much less in size than the skulls of its more northern ally, Croci- 

 dura raineyi. 



1 Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 56, No. 15, p. 3. Dec. 23. 

 - Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 56, No. 15, p. 4. Dec. 23. 

 » Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 15, p. 511; and vol. 16, p. 13J. May and August, 191.5. 



