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(112) Crocidura nanilla, Thos. 



Crocidura nanilla, Thomas, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) vol. iv. p. 99 

 (1909). 



Smaller and greyer than nava. 



Fur shorter, hairs of back only 2-3 mm. in length. Colour 

 of dorsal surface slate-grey (rather paler than "Chcetura 

 drab"); transition from slate-coloured flanks to whitish 

 underparts well defined ; belly rather greyer than in nana. 

 Backs of hands and feet white. Tail finely haired, slaty 

 brown above, white below ; bristle-hairs numerous, grey iu 

 colour. 



Skull smaller and with shorter brain-case than in nana, 

 equally flat. Teeth rather smaller, second and third upper 

 nnicuspids about equal in size. 



Dimensions of the type (taken from spirit-specimen) : — 



Head and body 41 mm. ; tail 31 ; hind foot 8*2 ; ear 6*3. 



Skull : condylo-incisive length 15*1 ; greatest breadth»6"8 ; 

 least interorbital breadth 3; length of palate 6 1 ; post- 

 palatal length 7 ; greatest maxillary breadth 46 ; median 

 depth of brain-case 3*2 ; length of upper tooth-row 6*5. 



Hab. Uganda (probably Entebbe). 



Type. Adult female (skinned from spirit). B.M. no. 

 9.7.14.1. 



This Uganda pygmy shrew is distinguished from the 

 Somali nana by its smaller skull and more slaty colouring. 



(113) Crocidura pasha, %^. n. 



A very small cinnamon-coloured species, with a smaller 

 skull than either nana or nanilla. 



Size of head and body measured as rather larger than in 

 nana ; hind foot 9 mm. in length. Fur quite short, hairs of 

 back only about 2*5 mm. in length. 



Colour of upper parts pale cinnamon mottled with grey, 

 the resulting effect between " wood-brown " and " drab," 

 much browner and less slate-coloured than in nana or 

 nanilla, more as in the larger whitakeri from Marocco. 

 Flanks as brightly coloured as back, sharply contrasting 

 with the pure white belly ; hairs of belly almost uniformly 

 white, only the extreme bases being greyish, the general 

 efi'ect much whiter than iu nana or nanilla. Backs of hands 

 and feet whitish buff". Tail finely haired, cinnamon-brown 



