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The white spot at the base of the ear is not conspicuous. Compared j 
with A. kempi from British East Africa, these specimens are only a 
trifle paler, and externally hardly to be distinguished. One specimen 
was taken in a trap placed on a leaning stump some three feet from 
the ground. 
Mus (LEGGADA) TENELLA (Thomas). 
Blue Nile Harvest. Mouse. 
Leggada tenella Thomas, Proc. Zool. soc. London, 1903, 1, p. 298. 
Three specimens were preserved from Magangani and El Garef, 
both within a few miles of Roseires, the type locality. Two of the 
specimens are immature and much darker over the back than the 
other which is an adult. The type is said to have the fore legs en- 
tirely white, but in these two youngish specimens they are buffy like 
the sides of the body, and very pale buffy in the adult. The white 
spot at the outer base of the ear is very marked, whereas in the dark © 
L. bella of British East Africa this spot is practically wanting. 
Several other specimens were trapped along the Blue Nile at El Garef, 
Magangani, Bados, among the thorn bushes and tall grass canes, but 
they were nowhere common. The adult female measured :— total 
length 116 mm., tail 54, hind foot 13, ear from meatus 10. 
EPIMYS MACROLEPIS (Sundevall). 
Large-scaled Rat. 
Mus macrolepis Sundevall, Kongl. Svenska vet.-acad. Handl., for 1842, 1843, 
p. 218. 
The identity of Sundevall’s Mus macrolepis is still a matter of 
some doubt, as indicated by Wroughton (1911, p. 460), and its author 
was himself uncertain whether or not it was the same as Riippell’s 
Mus albipes. The type locality of the former is Roseires, and there 
can be no doubt whatever, from Sundevall’s careful description, that 
his macrolepis is the common ground rat which we found all along 
our journey from Sennar to Fazogli on the Blue Nile, and wherever 
we trapped on the Dinder River. The name is based on the fact that 
the caudal scales seemed large, five to 5 mm., but in our dried speci- 
mens there are six to5 mm. No doubt Sundevall made the measure- 
ment from alcoholics. Until it can be shown, therefore, that Mus 
