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Crocidura alchemillcs Heller (n. s.). Aberdare shrew; a diurnal form, occurring 

 above timber line on the Aberdare; perhaps identical with the foregoing.* 



Crocidura dlex. A pygmy shrew, taken at Naivasha. 



Crocidura nyansa. Very big for a shrew. Chiefly in the high country, near 

 watercourses; found round the edge of the forest, at Kenia and Kijabe. A 

 fierce, carnivorous creature, preying on small rodents as well as insects; habit- 

 ually ate mice, rats, or shrews which it found in the traps, and would then 

 come back and itself be readily trapped. 



Surdisorex nora. A shrew in shape not unlike our mole shrew. On the high, cold, 

 wet Aberdare plateau. Diurnal. 



Scotophilus migrila colias. Common at Nairobi; flying among the tree tops in the 

 evenings. Greenish back, with metallic glint; belly sulphur. Has the same 

 flight as our big brown bat vespertilio fuscus. 



Pipistrellus kuhlii fuscatus. Common at Naivasha and Nairobi. Very closely kin 

 to our Myotis, or little brown bat, with same habits. Fly high in the air after 

 dusk, and are easily shot. We never found its day roosts. 



Nyctinomus hindei (Free-tailed Bat). At Naivasha. Very swift flight, almost like 

 a swallow's, fairly high in the air. Live in colonies; one such in a house at 

 Naivasha. On the Athi Plains they were found in day time hanging up behind 

 the loose bark of the big yellow-trunked acacias. 



Lavia jrons (Great-eared Bat). Bluish body and yellowish wings; very long 

 ears. Almost diurnal, flies well by day; hangs from the thorn-tree branches, 

 in the sunlight, and flies as soon as it sees a man approaching. One young, 

 which remains attached to the mother until it is more than half her size. 



Petalia thebaica (Large-eared Nycterine Bat). Caves in the Rift Valley; also in the 

 Sotik, spending the day in the tops of the limestone wells or caverns which 

 contained water. Both sexes occurred together in company with a bat of another 

 genus Rhinolophus. Fly very close to the ground, only two or three feet above 

 it, and usually among trees and brush and not in the open, so that it is almost 

 impossible to shoot them. 



Rhinolophus. Found at the Limestone Springs in the Sotik, and in great numbers 

 in a cave at Naivasha, no other bat being found in the cave. Same general 

 habits as the nycteris. Specimens flew among our tents in the evening. 



Papio ibeanus. The baboon is common all over the plains, in troops. It digs up 

 lily bulbs, and industriously turns over stones for grubs and insects. Very 

 curious, intelligent, and bestial. 



* Crocidura alchemillce, new species (Heller). Type from the summit of the Aber- 

 dare Range; altitude, 10,500 feet; British East Africa; adult male, number 163,087, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus.; collected by Edmund Heller, October 17, 1909; original number, 1177. 



Allied to fumosa of Mount Kenia, but coloration much darker, everywhere clove 

 brown, the underparts but slightly lighter in shade; feet somewhat lighter sepia brown 

 but much darker than in fumosa; hair at base slaty-black. Hair long and heavy, on 

 back 6 to 7 mm. long; considerably longer than in fumosa. Musk glands on sides of body 

 clothed with short brownish hairs, the glands producing an oily odor very similar to that of 

 a petrel. Skull somewhat smaller than fumosa with relatively smaller teeth. 



Measurements: Head and body, 90; tail, 55; hind foot, 15.3. Skull: Condylo- 

 incisive length, 21; mastoid breadth, 9.7; upper tooth row (alveoli), 8.3. 



This species is an inhabitant of the dense beds of Alchemilla which clothe the al- 

 pine moorland of the Aberdare Range. 



