20 BUU^TIN 99, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



PARAXERUS OCHRACEUS EAHARI Heller. 



Plate 10. . 



1911. Paraxerus kahciri Heller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol 56, No. 17, p.* 2. 

 February 28. (Meru Boma, northeast of Mount Kenia, British East 

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



Specimens. — Four, from the following localities: 



British East Africa: Jambeni Mountains, S. W., 1 (Percival); 

 Meru, 1 (Heller); Mount Kenia, west slope at 7, 000 feet, 2 (Heller). 



This is a slightly darker subspecies very close to jacksoni, but tend- 

 ing somewhat toward percivali. The type-specimen is a young nurs- 

 ing female, very thinly haired on the underparts, and slightly lighter 

 and more olivaceous above than the other specimens, all of which have 

 much darker imderparts. The back-stripes are more distinct in this 

 subspecies than in any of the other forms found in British East 

 Africa, and are quite plainly seen on all four of the specimens, 

 "Among the Wameru tribe this squirrel is knoA\Ti as IcaJiari" (HeUer), 



PARAXERUS OCHRACEUS ANIMOSUS Dollman. 



1911. Paraxerus ochraceus animosus Dollman, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 

 vol. 8, p. 655. November. (Mount N\'iro, British East Africa; type 

 in British Museum.) 



Specimens. — Sixteen, from localities as follows: 



British East Africa: Lorghi Mountains, North, 1 (Percival); 

 Mount Lololokwi, 13 (Heller); Mount Nyiro, 6,000 feet, 1 (Percival); 

 Orr Valley, Moant Nyiro, 1 (Percival). 



The specimens collected on Mount Lololokwi are indistinguishable 

 in color from the topotypes from Mount Nyiro. 



PARAXERUS OCHRACEUS PERCIVALI Dollman. 



1911. Paraxerus pcrcivGli Dollman, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 8, p. 653. 



November. (Mareabit, British East Africa; type in British Museum.) 

 1911. Paraxerus ochraceus augusluf< Dollman, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 



vol. 8, p. 654. November. (Marsabit, British East Africa; type in 



British Museum.) 



Specimens. — Four, as follows : 



British East Africa: Marsabit Lake (Percival). 



Three skins in this small series are of the dark type of coloration 

 Avhile the fourth is much lighter, more 3^ellowish-ochraceous, appar- 

 ently as in the type of " augustus.^' There can scarcely be any doubt 

 as to the propriety of uniting these two named forms, which are 

 evidently the extreme types of coloration in an exceedingly variable 

 subspecies. Mi-. Heller, who examined the specimens in London, 

 made the following manuscript note on these squirrels: ''Types and 

 lai'ge series examined. The type of nugustus is the extreme light spec- 

 imen and very different from the blackish-backed type of percivali, 

 but both extremes shade into one another and both inhabit the same 

 altitudes on the mountain." 



