370 Mr. G. Dollman on the African Shrews 



Skull-dimensions of type and seven adults : — 



Mt. Kenya. 



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d(type). c?- 

 Condylo-incisive length . . 22 21 '5 



Greatest breadth 10 - 1 10'4 



Least interorbital breadth. 4'9 5 



Length of palate 8' 6 8 



Postpalatal length 97 9'3 



Greatest maxillary breadth. 67 6 - 3 

 Length of upper tooth-row. 9-4 9 - 3 



The examination of a large series of specimens from 

 various localities in British East Africa shows that this 

 species, while exhibiting a certain amount of individual 

 variation in size, cannot be split up into geographical races 

 to the same extent as in the turba group. There does not 

 . appear to be any sexual variation at all. 



Hub. Western slope of Mt. Kenya. Altitude 7800 feet. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 0. 2. 1. 8. 



This Kenya species is represented in the Museum Collec- 

 tion by a small series from the type-locality, a large number 

 of specimens from the Aberdare Mountains, a few from 

 Mt. Elgon, and a single specimen from the Jombeni Range 

 (Nyeri District), British East Africa. 



The curiously delicately built smooth skull and respective 

 sizes of the upper unicuspids render this species quite 

 distinct. 



(80) Crocidura fumosa montis, Thos. 



Crocidura fumosa montis, Thomas, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vol. xviii. 

 p. 138 (1906). 



Size as in fumosa, but darker in colour and with more 

 solidly built skull. 



Fur rather longer than in the Kenya species. General 

 colour dark shite-grey (" fuscous black " mixed with 

 "black"), much less brown than in fumosa, and minutely 

 speckled with silvery grey. Ventral surface very dark, slate- 

 grey washed with vandyke-brown. Backs of hands and feet 

 dirty brown. Tail long and slender, dark brown above, 

 lighter below. 



Skull like that of fumosa, but with a rather higher brain- 

 case and narrower upper unicuspids. 



