Mammals from ^i/itsal(in(L IIU 



55. Pelomys falla.r, Pet. 



cJ. lU, 165, loG, 227; ? . 350. Chiromo. 



S . H33, 355, 351) ; ? . 334, 335. Cholo. 



A subspecies — P. f. i'nsignattis — which lacks the dorsal 

 stripe has been described by Osgoo 1 from Fort Hill, North 

 Nyasalaiid. The abundant material in the British Museum 

 shows that the presence or absence of this stripe is not a 

 constant character, both striped and stripeless specimens being 

 found living side by side in many localities in Alashonaland 

 and Nyasaland. In the present series no. 105 has a poorly 

 defined stripe and nos. 350 and 334 show a faint trace of one. 

 'J'he others are stripeless. 



" Numerous all over country. Taken in holes in ground, 

 and also makes nests of grass in trash like fallen maize-.stems 

 or thick, long, dry grass. 



'' Native name ' Bvumbi.' " 



56. Lemniscomys griselda calidior, Tlios. & Wrought. 



^.156,232,240,311,368; ? . 362. Chiromo. 

 S . 250, 262, 407 ; ? . 2.^T, 344, 444. Cholo. 

 " Numerous all over country. Taken in holes in ground 

 in forest of all types. 



" Names * i^fphera' and ' ]\Iphoui.' " 



57. Otomys angoniensisy Wrought. 



?. 284. Cholo. 



" The only one taken was among grass in a clearing on a 

 wooded hill not far from a stream. The natives say it lives 

 near streams as a rule, and makes its nest among grass and 

 vegetation on banks, but not in holes. 



"Native name * Thiii/ probably ' Chingoni.' 



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58. Graphiurus inirrotis, Noack. 



<J . 288, 432, 433, 434; ? . 404, 430, 431, 435. Cholo. 



? . 238. Lilanje, Ruo. 



? . 379, 3y4. Chiromo. 



"Dormice are common all over the country, especially 

 where the ' nisuku '-tree {Uapaca kirki) abounds. This tree 

 is often hollow in places, or has large holes in it, where 

 branches have fallen and the heart decayed, and it is in these 

 places that their nests are found, at any height from the 

 ground, made of dry leaves of any small-leaved tree, such as 

 Brachystfgia sp., which is also a characteristic tree of this 

 * msuku ' forest. I have also noticed it living in the grass 

 roofs of huts, or in holes among the pole and mud walls. 



