60 BULLETIN 99, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CROCIDURA RAINEYI Heller. 



Plate 8, figs. 9, 10. 



1912. Crocidura raineyi Heller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 12, p. 7. 

 November 4. (Mount Gargues, British East Africa; type in U. S. Nat . 

 Mus.) 



Specimens. — Nine,, as follows : 



British East Africa: Mount Gargues, Mathews Range (Heller). 



Though obviously a member of the fumosa group this distinct 

 species is easily separated from all the subspecies of fumosa by its 

 large size and large skull. Heller writes : ^ 



The species is confined to the extreme forested summit of Mount Garguez, which is 

 isolated from the Kenia forest by low bush-covered desert in which no representative 

 of the fumosa group is known to occur. Fumosa and its allies are all forest species 

 known only from the highlands, with the exception of scMstacea of the high veldt of 

 the Athi Plains. On Mount Garguez this race was found from the lower edge of the 

 forest at 5,000 feet to the summit, 7,000 feet. 



CROCroURA JACKSONI Thomas. 



1904. Crocidura jacksoni Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 14, p. 238. 

 September. (Ravine Station, British East Africa; type in British 

 Museum.) 



Specimens. — Fourteen, from the following localities : 

 British East Africa: Isiola River, 1 (Heller); Kaimosi, 1 

 (Turner); Kapiti Plains, 1 (Loring); Mount Sagalla, 3 (Heller); 

 Mtoto Andei, 1 (Heller); Neuman's Boma, Northern Guaso Nyiro, 

 1 (Heller) ; Southern Guaso Nyiro, 3 (Loring) ; Ulukenia Hills, 2 in 

 alcohol (Loring); Voi, 1 (HeUer). 



A female, collected by Loring in the Southern Guaso Nyiro, June 

 30, contained three fetuses, and one collected by Heller at Voi, 

 November 20, four. Most of the skins are in the ordinary brown 

 coat, but some, showing the progress of the moult, are partly in the 

 brown and partly in the darker slate-brown pelage. The Kaimosi 

 specimen is very dark, almost blackish, and is marked by a silvery 

 lustre as described in the type by Thomas. This specimen is really 

 so very different from the rest of the series in color that I hesitate 

 to call it the same form. DoUman has described a darker subspecies 

 of jacJcsoni from the Amala River, Nyanza Province, British East 

 Africa, as Crocidura jacJcsoni amalsc,^ but this specimen does not 

 agree with the description in many ways. It probably represents a 

 color phase of jacksoni or perhaps a distinct species, but owing to 

 the lack of authentic material of jaclcsoni for comparison I do not 

 feel justified in separating it. 



1 Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 12, p. 8, Nov. 4, 1912. 



« Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 15, p. 51fi, May; vol. 16, p. 376, October, 1915. 



