526 On the African Shrews helonging to Crocidura. 



(8) Crocidura schiveitzeri, Pet. 



Crocidura schweitzeri, Peters, MB. Akad. "Wiss, Berlin, p. 187 (1877). 

 Crocidura stampjlii, Jent. Notes Leyd. Mus. x. p. 47 (1887). 



Size rather less than in occidentalis. 



PeterSj in his preliminary diagnosis, describes this form as 

 follows : — 



" Cr. cinnamomeo-fusca, siibtus pallidior, pilis basi schis- 

 taceis ; cauda tetragona, setis longioribus in parte basali 



In the Museum Collection are three specimens from 

 Sierra Leone, which agree fairly closely with Peters's de- 

 scription ; the upper parts dull brownish or brownish 

 cinnamon and the belly greyish or grey washed with brown, 

 the latter being the older pelage, the condition described by 

 Jentink for his stampflii, a form I am unable to distinguish 

 from schweitzeri. Backs of hands and feet brownish white. 

 Tail rather short, brownish above, lighter below ; bristle- 

 hairs light in colour and fairly numerous. 



Dimensions (as given by Peters) : — 



Head and body 90 mm. ; tail 53 ; hind foot (c. u.) 15 ; 

 ear 10. 



Length of upper tooth-row 10'3. 



Hab. Liberia. 



Dimensions of two specimens from Sierra Leone: — 



Head and body 95, 85 mm. ; tail 56, 48 ; hind foot 15, 

 15-5; ear 11, 10. 



The dimensions of stampflii are very similar to those given 

 by Peters : — 



Head and body 94, 79 mm. ; tail 60, 47; hind foot 15, 

 15 ; ear 10, 85. 



The colour-difference is only such as might be due to 

 the geiieral darkening of the ventral surface, owing to the 

 hair-tips becoming tinged with brown, as is so often the 

 case in the worn pelage in this genus. 



(9) Crocidura bnttikoferi, Jent. 



Crocidura biittikoferi, Jentink, Notes Leyd. Mus. vol. x. p. 47 



(1887). 



Allied to schiveitzeri, Prom which form it is distinguished 

 by its much shorter tail. 



Size ol: body rather less than in schweitzeri. 



Jentink describes the colour as follows : — '^ Upper parts 

 of the body brownish black coloured and the underparts 



