574 Mr. G. Dollman on the African Shrews 



Skull-dimensions taken from the Adis Abeba specimens : — 



mm. mm. mm. mm, 



Condylo-incisive length 30 28'6 28-4 29 



Greatest breadth V2o 11-6 12 12-2 



Length of palate 12-1 12-6 12-3 11-9 



Postpaliital length 12-o ll'S 11-9 12-9 



Greatest maxillary breadth. . 10 9-2 9-1 9-3 



Length of upper tooth-row.. 13-6 13 127 13-3 



Hab. Shoa, Abyssinia. 



This species is evidently more nearly related to flavescens 

 than to the nyansce group, possessing the thick bicoloured 

 tail, distinct definition between the dorsal and ventral 

 surfaces of the body, and cold light grey underparts of the 

 South-African species ; only in its general dimensions is 

 doriana at all like nyans(£ and the allied forms. C. sururcB, 

 from Lado, would seem to be rather intermediate between 

 doriana and the nyansa group. 



(22) Crocidura flavescens, Is. GeoflF. 



Sorex flavescens, Is. GeoflF. Diet. Class, xi. p. 324 (1827) ; Mem. Mus. 



XV. p. 126 (1827). 

 Sorex cinyiamomeus, Licht. Verhandl. Ges. Natur. Fr. Berlin, ii. p. 381 



(1829). 

 Sorex capensis, Smith (nee Smuts, nee Geoff.), S. Afr. Quart. Journ. 



Tol. ii. p. 62 (1833) ; 111. Zool. S. Afr. i. pi. xlv. fig. 1 (1849), 

 Sorex rutilus, Sund, Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Forhaudl. p. 119 (1846). 



Smaller than nyansa, with much lighter-coloured under- 

 parts more distinctly marked off from the brownish tint of 

 the dorsal surface ; tail whitish underneath. 



Size of body, hind foo-t, and tail less than in nyansce. 



General colour of upper parts, in new pelage, " Prout's 

 brown ^^ mixed with " cinnamon-brown/' In the worn state 

 the fur is very much lighter and more brilliant in colour, 

 about as in " Dresden brown," Flanks a trifle paler than 

 back, the brownish tint passing fairly abruptly into the light 

 greyish white of the belly ; entire underparts much lighter 

 and colder in colour than in nyanscB, " pale smoke-grey " or 

 '• pale neutral grey " in the new pelage, "deep olive-butf'' 

 iu the worn state. Backs of hands and feet dirty white or 

 buff. Tail rather shorter and more hairy, brownish above, 

 white or pale buff below ; bristle-hairs whitish, sparingly 

 distributed over proximal two-thirds. 



Skull considerably smaller than that of nyansa, with 

 narrower brain-case and muzzle ; teeth mai-kedly smaller, 

 second and third upper unicuspids about equal in size. 



