helongiug to the Genus Crociclura. 67 



Size of body rather less than in nyansa, more as in olivieri. 

 Fur fairly long, hairs on back 6-6*5 mm. in length. 



Colour above dull cinnamon-brown mixed with dark slate- 

 grey, the new pelage about as in "deep mouse-grey" mixed 

 Avith "fuscous/^ and the worn coat " Front's brown" washed 

 M'ith " Saccardo's umber." Flanks rather more slaty, the 

 transition to the slate-grey of the ventral surface gradual 

 and indistinct. Belly dark slate washed with greyish butf 

 (•'deep neutral grey" washed with " light greyish olive '"'), 

 darker than in nyanste or olivieri. Backs of hands and feet 

 dirty buff. Tail shorter than in nyans(B, brown above, a 

 trifle paler below ; bristle-hairs exceptionally numerous and 

 long, from 14 to 17 mm. in length, and densely distributed 

 throughout nearly the entire length of the tail, greyish in 

 colour. 



Skull with narrow maxillary region; teeth smaller than in 

 nyanscB, olivieri, or doriana, about as in fiavescens. Upper 

 nnicus})ids small, especially the second, which appears con- 

 siderably smaller than the thii-d when viewed from above; 

 last upper molar broad. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — 



Head and body 105 mm. ; tail 60 ; hind foot 18-5 ; 

 e:ir 11. 



Skull (broken) : length of palate 11'9 ; least interorbital 

 breadth 4*6 ; greatest maxillary breadth 7 '7 ; length of 

 upper tooth-row 12'3. 



Hab. Charada Forest, Kaff'a, Abyssinia. 



Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 6. 11. 1. 12. Original 

 number 100. Collected on June 2nd, 1905, by Mr. Zaphiro, 

 and presented to the British Museum by W. N. McMdlan, 

 Esq. 



The chief diagnostic characters of this species are the dull 

 slaty-brown colouring, the great development of the caudal 

 bristle-hairs, and the small size of the second upper uni- 

 cuspids. Crocidura macrodon, Dobs., which is supposed to 

 have come from the Sudan, is a very much smaller animal, 

 the hind foot being only 14 mm. in length. 



(24) Crocidura olivieri, Less. 

 Sorex olivieri^ Lesson, Man. Manim. p. 121 (1827). 



A pale coff'ee-brown-coloured species allied to zaphiri. 



About equal in iiize to fiavescens, rather smaller than in 

 the nyansce group. Fur of back fairly short, hairs from 5 to 

 6 mm. in length. 



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