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appear to be very well separated as a group from the other mem- 

 bers of the genus by the possession of the peculiar chest gland. 



PETRODROMUS SULTANI SANGI, new subspecies 



Taita Giant Elephant Shrew- 

 Type from the summit of Mt. Mbololo, 4,000 ft. altitude, Taiti 

 Hills, British East Africa ; adult male ; No. 181822, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 collected by Edmund Heller, November 9, 191 1; original number, 

 4698. 



Characters. — Differs from sultani of the coast district by lighter 

 coloration, the median dorsal region being raw umber rather than 

 bister and the lowerparts cream-white instead of ochraceous-buff as 

 in sultani. Skull, smaller, with the posterior ends of the nasal 

 bones deeply sunk between the raised borders of the maxillary 

 bones. 



Coloration. — Median dorsal area, from interorbital region to base 

 of tail, raw umber bordered on sides of body by olive-gray which 

 gradually merges into buff along lower sides of body ; hind limbs 

 buffy like the sides, the feet cinnamon; fore legs buffy like sides, 

 the feet ochraceous-buff. Tail black, at base on lower side for a 

 short distance buff; armed along its lower margin by a row of long 

 stiff-knobbed bristles ; crown of head raw umber, the same color 

 continued as a median stripe to the tip of the proboscis, a broad 

 stripe of same color through eye from base of whiskers to behind 

 ear, eye bordered above and below by a wide line of cream-buff, 

 and base of ears encircled by a border of same color; cheeks olive- 

 gray ; ears blackish, covered by a few short tawny hairs ; under- 

 pays white, on sides somewhat cream-buff but everywhere sharply 

 defined against the buff of the lower sides ; hair everywhere slate at 

 base except on chin and forethroat where it is uniform cream-buff 

 to the roots. 



Measurements. — Head and body, 190 mm.; tail, 123 (tip mis- 

 sing) ; hind foot, 56 ; ear, 34. 



Skull : Occipito-nasal length, 53 ; condylo-basal length, 52.5 ; 

 zygomatic breadth, 29.5; interorbital width, 8; nasals, 21 x 4; upper 

 molar series, 10; width of palate at m 2 , 10.3; mandible length, 42; 

 height from angle to coronoid process, 18.3. 



Only the type was secured in the Taita Hills, but three specimens 

 from the same region secured by R. Kemp and now in the British 

 Museum agree well with the type in coloration. A large series from 

 Mazeras are also of the same light color while the type and the 



