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tion lighter and grayer. Skin of face mouse-gray with a downy 

 growth of short grayish hair. Whiskers and hair on lips blackish. 



Measurements. — Measurements in the flesh: head and body, 

 700 mm. ; tail, 540 ; hind foot, 190 ; ear, 50. Skull very old, the canines 

 worn down level with the premolars and the molars worn down level 

 with the gums. Greatest length, 212 ; basilar length, 151 ; zygomatic 

 breadth, 125 ; width of rostrum midway between orbit and nares, 44; 

 length of rostrum from orbit, 118; length of upper cheek teeth 

 series, 52. 



Remarks. — There is besides the type another adult male from the 

 Northern Guaso Nyiro which agrees in length and slenderness of 

 rostrum with the type. These two specimens are readily distinguish- 

 able by the rostral characters from a series of furax and testes in the 

 National Museum. 



