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//. hirtula, though tlie isolated longer hairs in the fur are 

 unusually numerous. General colour above dark finely 

 speckled greyish brown of a tone unlike that of any other 

 species — a sort of greyish bislre; the underfur blackish for 

 its basal half, dull ochraceous buff terminally. Head be- 

 tween burnt umber and vandyke-brown ; chin and inter- 

 ramia similar. Belly darker brown ; inguinal region paler. 

 Forearms from elbows blackish brown, darkening on digits to 

 black ; fore claws rather larger than usual. Feet dark grizzled 

 brown, the digits blackish brown. Tail dark speckled brown, 

 not becoming more rufous terminally above, although there 

 is an inconspicuous rufous line below, more obvious basally. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in flesh) : — 



Head and body 225 mm.; tail 175; hind foot 47; 

 ear 21. 



Skull : condylo-bcisal length 505 ; zygomatic breadth 30 ; 

 interorbital breadth 10 ; breadth of brain-case 22"5 ; front 

 ot canine to back of vr 17'4; ^^, length on outer edge 4'1, 

 greatest diameter 6 ; wi^, breadth 4'b; m^, breadth 4. 



JIah. Orr Valley, near Mt. Nviro, N. British E. Africa, 

 4500'. 



T^pe. Adult male. Original number 427. Collected 

 31st March, 1911, by Mr. A. Blayney Percival. 



This striking species is distinguishable by the combination 

 of blackish feet with rufous head, the other rufous- or buffy- 

 headed forms all having similarly rufous feet. 



Helogale hirtula lutescens,&vhs,\). n. 



Like the typical hirtula of the highlands of Central Somali, 

 but with the posterior back suffused with dull buffy. Throat 

 and belly with the dull rufescent colour replaced by grey on 

 the former and brownish on the latter part. In other 

 respects as in hirtula, including the blackish digits. 



F^ of the type, greatest diameter Q'2 ; in^ 5'6. 



External measurements of the Webi specimen : — 



Head and body 243 mm.; tail 185; hind foot 45; 

 ear 15. 



Hah. (of type). Lake Rudolf, on the plains near the N. 

 end of tlie Lake. Another specimen from Halian Somali- 

 land, 



Ti/pe. Young male. B.M. no. 6. 11. 1. 19. Original 

 number 126. Collected 7th August, 1905, by Ph. C. Zaphiro. 

 Presented by W. N. McMillan, Esq. 



Tlie Museum owes to Dr. R.E. Drake-Brockman an adult 

 example of this bufiy-backcd form of H. hirtula, obtained 



