EAST AFRICAN MAMMALS IN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



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Genus PROTOXERUS Major. 



1893. Protoxerus Major, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, p. 18 9. 

 (P. stangeri.) 



The discover}' of the 

 giant forest sqiiirreJ by the 

 Rainey Expedition in the 

 Kakumega Forest ex- 

 tended the known range 

 of this West African ge- 

 nus into British East 

 Africa. A race had pre- 

 viously been described by 

 Thomas from Entebbe, 

 Uganda, as Protoxerus 

 stangeri centricola} No 

 specimens of giant squir- 

 rels were obtained by the 

 Smithsonian African Ex- 

 pedition in Uganda and 

 the Entebbe form is un- 

 represented in our collec- 

 tions. 



PKOTOXEKUS STANGERI BEA 

 HeUer. 



Plate 11. 



1912. Protoxerus stangeri bea 

 Heller, Smitlison" 

 ian Misc. Coll., vol. 

 59, No. 16, p. 2. 

 July 5. (Lukosa 

 River, Kakumega 

 Forest, British East 

 Africa ; type in 

 U. S. Nat. Mus.) 



Specimens. — Twelve, 

 from the following locali- 

 ties: 



British East Africa: 

 Kaimosi, 7 (Heller); Lu- 

 kosa River, 5 (Heller). 



The skins in this series 

 show considerable varia- 

 tion in color, and it is 



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' Sciurus stangeri centricola Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 18, p. 297, October, 1906. 



