84 EINAR LONNBERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 
Condylobasal ength) <5) eres = nite) a 160 mm. 
Basalfdength sf. = (sim vege ht = abieeetie see dek bare 151» 
Zygomatic breadth. . . +. - 06 = «as ww ws 130,5 » 
Tnterorbital, DYeQUbo <)%, © nce 1s) eo wife siren wie) came tte te 43,5 
Least postorbital breadth --. + 5-2... .+-:s- +. 57 
Distance between postorbital processes .........--. 80 
Length of nasals mesially .-. +. ...-..--2+ees 44.» 
Greatest combined breadth of nasals in front. ...... 33 
Tength OF pt oe oa) ee ers oy wie) eo a es 21,6 » 
Distance between bulle in front ........+.4.-.-. 20,5 » 
Width of palatal opening at sut. palatopterygoidea . .. . . 13,4 » 
This skull offers the strange anomaly that p* and m!’ are entirely missing on 
the right side, and there is no trace of any alveole, nor of any healed wound on the 
jaw bone so that this defect is evidently inborn. 
The Cheetah in question was infested with ticks of the species Rhipicephalus 
armatus which never have been found on this animal before.’ 
Glires. 
Sciuride. 
Heliosciurus keniz NruMANN. 
NeuMANN: Sitzber. Ges. Nat. Freunde. Berlin 1902, p. 176. 
In the journal quoted O, Neumann has shortly described a Squirrel from Kenia 
without giving any measurements of the animal or its skull. It is thus chiefly for 
geographical reasons that two Squirrels obtained 28 of Jan. in the primeval forest 
on the eastern slopes of Kenia are referred to this species. Five more Squirrels shot 
in the forest at Meru boma and a sixth from a forest two hours march to the north 
of the latter locality are quite similar to those from the Kenia forest. The general 
colour of the upper parts is very dark olive brown. The hairs are black with shiny 
black tips, a subtermina] dull yellowish white ring, and a lower whitish ring which 
often has a more or less strong tint of fawn. The underfur is richly developed, 
long and reaching the level of the lower light ring. The underfur is broadly tipped 
with fawn (in some specimens more ochraceous, in some others more reddish which 
blends together with the lower light ring of the hair. Basally the underfur is black. 
The lower side is dark brown and the hairs are ringed with fawn, sometimes with 
yellowish tan colour (»Rép. de Couleurs» 315), In some specimens hairs with whitish 
rings are found mesially and on the inside of the hind legs, but even in such spe- 
cimens the majority of the hairs are ringed with fawn or yellowish. From the throat 
a white patch extends to between the fore legs. This white mark which NEUMANN 
* Conf. L. G. Neumann: Ixodides. Ark. f. Zool. Bd. 7, n:o 24, p. 6. Stockholm 1912. 
