KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 48. N:0 5, 51 
bable as mentioned above that at least some of them could be joined with others as 
subspecies. H&LLER says for instance about his species 2. phwus that it is »closely 
allied to pulcher>. 
I obtained 5 specimens of the race described above in the thornbush country 
north of Guaso Nyiri, partly not far from a waterplace called Thera, partly below 
Chanler Falls. These specimens were all of them secured with the shotgun while 
running through the bushes. In spite of their large eyes which give them the appea- 
rance of being nocturnal in habits, these animals are seen moving about in full day- 
light under a glaring sun. Only single specimens were seen. When scared they ran 
through the bushes to all appearance like a mouse, and I did not see them deserve 
the name »Jumping Shrew. They were not very shy and did as a rule not run very 
long each time. 
Soricide. 
Sylvisorex sorelloides LOnNzBERG. 
Loynperc: Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 8 Vol. IX p. 67. 
This very interesting long-tailed Shrew was caught on the acacia-steppe near 
Itiolu river, a tributary to Guaso Nyiri from its southern side. With regard to its 
very long and almost rat-like tail and general proportions it appears to resemble S, 
sorella THomas* described from the Masuku Plateau, Nyasaland. It differs by this 
characteristic very markedly as well from S. lunaris Tuomas and S. granti THoMas 
from Ruwenzori, as from S. mundus OsGoop from Kijabe, which all have the tail 
shorter than, or at the most subequal with the length of head and body. 
The general colour above is dark brown (PI. ITI fig. 1). The fur is rather long 
(about 5 mm.) and soft but not very dense. It is dark plumbeous basally with long 
brown tips, something between »raw umber» (n:o 301) and »brownish drab» (n:o 302, 
Répert. de Coul.), somewhat paler more greyish on the flanks. The lower side is 
whitish by long white tips to the hair which are plumbeous grey basally. The line 
of demarcation between the colours of the upper and lower sides is not very sharply 
defined. Hands and feet very slender, hairy. Fingers whitish except the fifth and 
the lateral side of the fourth which are brown. The corresponding parts of the 
hands as well are whitish resp. brown. On the hind limbs only the two inner toes 
and the corresponding parts of the feet are light. The tail is very long and slender, 
quite murine in appearance, scaly and annelated, but at the same time covered with 
a great number of short hair, which, however, do not conceal the annulation. The 
tail is brown above and distinctly paler below. It has no longer bristles at all. 
The snout of the freshly caught animal was strikingly long and slender, almost 
cylindrical in shape and almost cleft at the end. The vibrisse are numerous. 
' Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1897 p. 930. 
