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Heller in Berlin and the following manuscript notes made by him are 

 of interest : 



Crocidura gradlipes Peters. Type alcoholic, skull extracted; No. 3905, Kiliman- 

 jaro, V. der Decken. Tail without longer hairs as in Sylvisorex, but it is a true Crocidura , 

 as no 4th upper unicuspid is present, but there is some space between 3rd unicuspid 

 and large premolar; middle unicuspid about same size as last. Tail, 52 mm., foot 

 12.2; specimen much shrunken by strong alcohol. Color above mummy brown, 

 below silver brown. Skull: Condyloincisive length, 20.5; breadth braincase, 8.5; 

 length upper tooth row, 8,7; manidble, condyloincisive length, 14.9. Not closely 

 related to any British East African form except perhaps to the maunsca group. 



CROCIDURA HILDEGARDE^ AVTJE Heller. 



Plate 10, figs. 1, 2. 



1912. Crocidura hildegardex altse Heller, Smithsonian ^lisc. Coll., vol. GO, No. 

 12, p. 9. November 4. (North Creek, at 6,000 feet, Mt. Gargues, 

 Mathews Range, British East Africa; type in U. S. Nat. Mus.) 



Specimens. — Six, from — 



British East Africa: Mount Gargues (Heller). 



This well-marked race of MUegardex is apparently confined to the 

 forested summit of Mount Gargues, from 5,000 to 6,000 feet altitude. 



Dollman placed Crocidura planiceps Heller in this group, as a close 

 relative of Uldegardex. It is a member of the Ucolcr group, related 

 to G. h. elgonius Osgood. 



For measurements of specimens of the subspecies of 0. hildegardex . 

 see table, pages 61-63. 



CROCIDURA BICOLOR ELGONIUS Osgood. 



1910. Crocidura bicolor elgonius Osgood, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 5, 

 p. 369. April. (Kirui, near Mount Elgon, British East Africa; type 

 in British Museum.) 



1910. Crocidura bicolor elgonius Roosevelt, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p. 

 474; London ed., p. 486. 



Specimens. — Nine, from the followmg localities : 



British East Africa: Kaimosi, 6 (Heller) ; Kapiti Plains, 1 (Lor- 

 ing); Kisumu, 1 (Heller); Lukosa River, 1 (Heller). 



Loring notes of a female, collected on the Kapiti Plains, May 1 , 

 that the mammee were 3-3 inguinal. Heller foimd three embryos in 

 a female collected at Kaimosi, January 24, and one embryo in one 

 taken at the same place January 29. The specimen from Kapiti 

 Plains does not differ in any characters from the specimens taken 

 near Victoria Nyanza. 



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