20 " SCIURUS SHIRENSIS. 



There are five molars in each upper , four in each lower 

 jaw. Incisors ungrooved , honey-yellow. 



The type-specimen of this species is now in the Berlin 

 Museum , but I could not inspect the skull ; there still is 

 a skull in the skin , but this skull seems to be in a very 

 bad condition , the loAver incisors being absent , and moreo- 

 ver Prof. Peters cannot say with certainty whether that skull 

 does indeed belong to the individual , the true skull having 

 perhaps been lost in the time of Prof. Peters' predecessor. 



It is not without hesitation that I here introduce this 

 species , as I am convinced that it is based upon a specimen 

 which is moulting. But as it at present is an impossibi- 

 lity to decide to what fully dressed species it may belong 

 and because it cannot be confounded with the other hitherto 

 known species *) from the East Coast of Africa, the above 

 given short extract of Prof. Peters' exact description will 

 suffice to bring it under the attention of naturalists. 



N. i. Injerere (Peters). 



Hab. Mossambique, Boror, Tipiuo (Peters), Murchison 

 Rapids, River Shire, Zambesi valley, Sena (Kirk). 



It frequents high trees , called mucondocondo by the 

 Negros. 



It feeds on the soft fruits of this tree. Very frequent in 

 »Mopane" forests (Kirk). 



No specimen in the Leyden Museum. 



S ciu r u s shirensis. 



1867. Macroxus shirensis Gray. Ann. and Mag. of Nat. 



Hist. XX. p. 327. 

 1881. Heliosciurus stangeri Trouessart. Catalogue des 



Rongeurs viv. et foss. p. 82 (partim). 



1) It can in no case belong to Schcrus stangeri Wat. as Gray and Trouessart 

 seem to believe, for it has five upper molars in each jaw and not four as is the 

 case in the latter species and besides the other differences nobody has hitherto 

 met with a specimen of Sciurm stangeri Wat. on the East Coast of Africa. 



Notes Irom the Leyden JMuseum, "Vol. IV. 



