IO SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 60 



CROCIDURA HILDEGARDEiE PROCERA, new subspecies 

 Juniper Brown Shrew 



Type from the summit of Mt. Lololokui, Northern Guaso Nyiro 

 district, British East Africa ; altitude 6,000 ft. ; adult female ; No. 

 181820, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; collected by Edmund Heller, September 

 9, 191 1 ; original number, 4274. 



Characters. — Allied closely to hildegardece and having the same 

 proportions, but lighter colored, especially the underparts, and 

 slightly larger sized ; differs from its nearer geographical ally altce 

 by lighter, whitish underparts and shorter tail ; second and third 

 unicuspids equal in size, the third not appreciably larger. 



Coloration. — Dorsal color broccoli-brown the color uniform to 

 lower sides where it is fairly well defined against the light gray 

 underparts ; hair everywhere plumbeous at base ; feet white ; ears 

 drab ; tail indistinctly bicolor, broccoli-brown above, drab-gray below. 

 Measurements. — Head and body, 72 mm.; tail, 51; hind foot, 12. 

 Skull : Condylo-incisive length, 20 ; breadth of brain-case, 9 ; 

 length of upper tooth row, 8.8 ; condylo-incisive length of mandible, 

 12.7; depth at coronoid process, 4.8. 



This shrew was found abundantly in the dry juniper forest which 

 grows on the broad summit of Mt. Lololokui. A series of eleven 

 skins is in the collection from the type locality besides three others 

 from the lower slopes of Mt. Garguez. On Mt. Garguez the juniper, 

 Juniperus procera, grows as a fringing forest below the dense forest 

 proper on the dryer slopes of the mountain and it is in this zone 

 that the present race occurs abundantly. They are not known how- 

 ever, to inhabit the dry arid plains from which these two mountains 

 rise nor are they known from the Northern Guaso Nyiro River. 

 The whitish underparts at once distinguish it from any of the other 

 races of hildegardece. 



ELEPHANTULUS RUFESCENS MARIAKANiE, new subspecies 



Coast Elephant Shrew 



Type from Mariakani, British East Africa; adult female; No. 

 181821, U. S. Nat. Mus.; collected by Edmund Heller, December 

 31, 191 1 ; original number, 5072. 



Characters. — Intermediate in coloration between the dark race, 

 pulcher, and the reddish rufescens; median dorsal coloration wood- 

 brown, much lighter than the prout-brown of pidcher and much less 

 reddish than the russet of rufescens; size and skull about as in 

 rufescens. 



