14 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



by Rhoads). The type of the latter has unfortunately been so long 

 in alcohol that it is impossible to determine the color of the pelage, 

 but the outlines of the markings appear to agree with those of the 

 specimens from Hor, and a dry skin of an immature specimen in the 

 Smith Collection, which has been referred to the type has the same 

 markedly pinkish tone. The new subspecies from Sadi Malka differs 

 from all of these in the darker shading of its dorsal areas, and in the 

 ochraceous buff, instead of pinkish buff, coloration of the lateral 

 portions of its coat. 



Genus Tatera Lataste. 



5. Tatera nigricauda bodessae subsp. nov. 



Type from Sagan River, Bodessa, Abyssinia; altitude 5,000 feet. 

 (Original field-number 312 E. A. M., June 6, 1912.) 



General Characters. — Much smaller, but in other respects some- 

 what strongly resembling T. nigricauda nyania Dollman^ from the 

 northern Guaso Nyiro, but the black tail is shorter-haired, the color of 

 the body less brightly rufescent, due to the comparative lightness of 

 the coat and the resulting greatei prominence of the slaty color of the 

 under fur, the head is darker, and the white and black ocular markings 

 more pronounced. 



Length of pes 34.6 versus 36. in T. nigricauda nyama. 



SktilL — Fully adult, but molars show scarcely any wear. Of the 

 same type as skulls of the series of T. n. nyama Dollman in the U. S. 

 N. M., but of markedly smaller size than those of the latter of equal age. 



Pelage. — Dorsal pinkish area buff (c/. Ridgway) heavily shaded 

 with black on head, median, and especially posterior portions of back; 

 under parts white. Individual hairs of upper pelage light slate-gray 

 with long whitish bases (the same being characteristic of T. nigricauda 

 Peters {typica) in contrast with the light slate-gray of T. vicina Peters 

 (typica) and allies) *"and pinkish buff tips, surtipped over darker areas 

 with black, and mixed with usual longer black hairs; flanks less bright 

 and pinker in tone than in T. n. nya^na; coloration of outer sides of legs 

 continuous with upper parts, inner sides uniform white, like under sur- 

 faces; snout and nape heavily shaded with darker; lids dusky, promi- 



8 Cf. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., (8) VoL 7, 1911, p. 592. Specimen No. 183937, 

 9 , U. S. N. M., is of the same age as the type of the new subspecies. 



8<»C/. MB. Akad. Berlin, 1878, p. 200. Nigricaudus from Taita, greatest 

 length of skull 49 mm., length of pes 41 mm.; vicinus from Kitui; greatest length 

 of skull 42 mm.; length of pes 31 mm. 



