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garden refuse in open spaces in the middle ot the town, where 

 two half-grown specimens were met with on the same date 

 (21.vi.23). Largest c? 90. 60. 13. 9 mm. (Izikisia), and $ 85. 

 50. 10. 5 mm. (Dar es Sahiam). 



The Swahili name for a slu-ew is connected with a widespi'cad 

 belief common to almost all tribes, viz., that a shrew can follow a 

 path or road but cannot cross it ; if it attempts to do so it will 

 immediately fall dead. This legend has obviously been invented 

 to account JFor the not infrequent finding of dead shrews in the 

 road, as is also the case in England. The true cause of death 

 is that they have been pounced upon by genets and mungoose, 

 who, on discovering- the putigent smell of tJieir prey, abandon 

 them. 



CitocmuitA iiJNJJiii Tlios. 



A female from Nairobi, measuring 80. 41. 13. 10 mm. 



CUOCIUUEA BICOLOU ELGONIUS Osg. 



A female from Eldoret, measuring 45. 31. 9. 7 mm. 



EODENTIA. 



S C I U 11 1 D iE. 



^THOSCiUKus BYATTi Kershaw. 



Six examples from Bagilo, Uluguru Mts., of this species so 

 recently described from the Usainbara Mts. further impresses me 

 with the correspondence betAveen the mammal and bird faunas 

 of these widely separated mountain ranges. 



Largest d 240. IGO. 60. 30 mm.; largest $ 240. 190. 40. 

 30 mm. 



TIkLIOSCIURUS RUFOBnACIIIATUS NYAKS/E Ncum. 



Five specimens from Chantwara, of which the largest male 

 measured 245. 270. ? ? mm., and female 250. 235. 55. 21 mm. 

 (native measurements). 



Heliosciuhus undulatus undulatus True. 



A male and female only from Bungu, Usambara iMts. 



Paraxerus palliatus suahelicus Neum. 



This Red Squirrel is known as Kimhnlindi in Kikami, Chim- 

 weje in Chigogo, Sindi in Kinyaturu, Kitungu in Kinyiramba. 



Nine specimens from Bogoti, Mkata River, Mbwerii, Kipera, 

 and jMadazini ; also seen in dense maiombo scrub at Ndogwe. It 

 is chieily found in the tangled undergrowth on the banks of dry 

 water-courses, or in the big trees whero patches of primary forest 

 still survive, A few were seen in thorn-trees. 



