8 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 56 



siderable variation due to age, the young usually having the under 

 parts quite huffy with the hair basally plumbeous, the pure white 

 under parts being acquired only in old adults. 



MUS BELLUS GONDOKOR^, new subspecies 



GoNDOKORO Pygmy Mouse 



Type from Gondokoro, Uganda; adult male, number 164820, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. ; collected by J. Alden Loring, February 25, 1910; orig- 

 inal number, 9089. 



Characters. — Smaller and lighter colored than bellus, with the 

 subaural white spot well defined. 



Coloration. — Median dorsal area from eyes to posterior rump 

 hair brown, much lighter than the fulvous sides against which it is 

 not well defined ; snout, area about eye, limbs, and sides of body 

 bright fulvous, sharply contrasted with the white of the under parts. 

 Ears hair brown like back. Under parts, tip of snout, and lips and 

 feet, white ; the hair white to the roots. Tail brown above, lighter 

 and whiter below. 



Measurements. — Head and body, 60 mm.; tail, 43; hind foot, 13. 

 Skull: greatest length, 17.6; condylo-incisive length, 16; zygomatic 

 breadth, 9.4; nasal, 63; length of upper toothrow, 3. 



The type is the only specimen in the collection. 



MUS BELLUS ENCLAV-ffi new subspecies 



Enclave Pygmy Mouse 



Type from Rhino Camp, Lado Enclave ; adult male, number 

 164818, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; collected by J. Alden Loring, January 10. 

 1910; original number, 8613. 



Characters. — Size of bellus, but dorsal coloration much darker, 

 the sides nearly as dark as the median region. 



Coloration. — Upper parts blackish, the median region very spar- 

 ingly flecked with tawny; sides more tawny, about equally mixed 

 broccoli brown and tawny; snout dorsally blackish to tip, sides of 

 head and snout tawny ochraceous, enclosing the eye on lower and 

 posterior side only, the huffy eye-ring being broken above by the 

 blackish suffusion of the head. Ears hair brown, with an indistinct 

 white patch at their base. Tail dark brown above, lighter brownish 

 below. Under parts from level of nostrils and feet white, the hair 

 white to the base. 



