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I am unable satisfactorily to 

 separate this species into forms 

 over all the range, as represented 

 by the specimens listed above. 

 There is considerable variation in 

 the color and the skull but all the 

 specimens are distinctly larger 

 than hildegardese, and there is 

 never any confusion \\'ith that spe- 

 cies. Dollman placed Osgood's 

 Crocidura parvipes, C. xantippe, 

 and Heller's C. lutreola in the 

 "jaclcsoni" group. The first tv/o 

 species I consider to be small 

 members of the hindei-fischeri 

 group, and lutreola does not seem 

 to differ sufficiently from hilde- 

 gardex to be recognized as a sub- 

 species of that form. The tliree 

 specimens listed above from 

 Mount Sagalla were referred by 

 Heller^ to Crocidura parvipes , but 

 comparison with the type of that 

 species shows them to be not of 

 the same species, and I do not 

 find any way to distinguish them 

 from jacksoni. 



Dollman further recognized 

 Crocidura gracilipes Peters as a 

 species of the jacksoni group and 

 listed under it specimens in the 

 British Museum from Taveta and 

 Rombo, Kilimanjaro. The 

 Taveta specimens in the United 

 States National Museum collec- 

 tion seem indistinguishable from 

 Crocidura, liildegardex, and under 

 that species I have placed some 

 notes on the type-specimen of 

 gracilipes, made at Berlin by Mr. 

 HeUer. 



For measurements see table, 

 page 61. 



1 Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 12, p. 9. 

 Nov. 4,1912. 



