12 BULLETIN 99, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



German East Africa: Kahe, 1 (Abbott). 



The type-specimen is conspicuous among East African squirrels for 

 its luxuriant, soft coat. It was collected at 6,000 feet altitude on June 

 12. The upper tooth rows each have a veiy small and imperfect jyn\^, 

 broken on the left side. This tooth is not fmictional and is in no way 

 comparable to the small premolar regularly present in j.EtlkOSciui'us . 

 The large premolar has the anterior cusp developed as in Helio- 

 sciur-us, and there can be no dou]>t that the species belongs in that 

 genus. The female specimen from Kahe, German East Africa, 

 included by True in. the original d(\scription, is so different in some 

 respects from the type that I am somewhat doubtful as to its belong- 

 ing with this sabspecies. It is very much shorter haired and the hair- 

 rings on the upperparts are much brighter ochraceous buff than 

 in the type; the skull differs from the type skull in its much broader 

 rostrum, in this respect resembling the subspecies daucinus and 

 sMndi. The specimen was collected in September and is therefore 

 not comparable with the type as to pelage; and with only the single 

 skull it would be unwise to consider the specimen subspecifically dis- 

 tinct on the character of the broader rostrum, i^ter a veiy careful 

 study of the description of Heliosciurus undulatus marimtzi Miiller 

 I can not believe that that name represents a form distinct from true 

 undulatus. The type of manvitzi is virtually a topotype of undu- 

 latus; the characters presented to separate the form seem wholly 

 unimportant and trifling; and furthermore the description of marvntzi 

 agrees, even to its supposed distinguishing characters, very well 

 indeed with the type-specimen of undulatus. 



HELIOSCIURUS UNDULATUS SHINDI Heller. 



Plate 9. 



1914. Heliosciurus rufobrucMatus shindi Heller, Smithsouian Misc. Coll., vol. 

 63, No. 7, p. 7. June. (Summit of Mouut Umengo, Taita Hills. British 

 East Africa, at 6,000 feet; tj-pe in U. S. Nat. Mus.) 



Specimen. — One, the type, from — 



British East Africa: Mount Umengo (HeUer). 



"This squirrel in confined to the renmant of forest covering the 

 extreme summit of the Taita Hills, where it is very rare. The type 

 was the only individual seen during a fortnight's stay on the summit 

 of Umengo Mountain. Among the Wataita tribe this squirrel is 

 known as shindi" (HeUer, reference as above, p. 8). 



HEUOSCIURUS UNDULATUS DAUCINUS Thomas. 



1909. Hdiosdurus undulatus daucinus Thojias, Anu. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 

 8, vol. 4, p. 101. August. (Mombasa, British East Africa: type iu 

 British Museum.) 



Specimen. — One, from — 



British East Africa: Mazeras (Heller). 



