284 UNDER THE AFRICAN SUN 



Mr. True's specimen was about full grown, and that the tail was 

 not materially shortened by the injury mentioned. 



Dr. Ansorge has been hitherto known in connection with 

 zoology as a collector of insects, but he gives me an interesting 

 account of the accident which put him in possession of this 

 collection of mammals in 1895. The site of a long-disused 

 village had been purchased for the purpose of building the 

 new Government Hospital, and in clearing the long grass and 

 scrub towards the centre, as the circle narrowed it was dis- 

 covered that there was a large number of small mammals 

 enclosed. It being observed that there were "rats of all 

 colours," a selection of pairs of different sorts was made, with 

 the result that some ten or a dozen specimens were obtained. 

 Dr. Ansorge describes the Rhizoviys heaving up the ground like 

 giant moles ; many of the new Lophurotnys, quite twenty, were 

 left on the ground. 



The two specimens agree in every particular, and are said to 

 be male and female, but are not labelled. 



Bamboo-Rat. 



24. Tachyoryctes splendens . . . From Mumia's in Kavirondo. 



Hairless Rodent Mole. 



25. Heterocephalus glaber . . . . In 1896 from Kinani in British 



East Africa. 



