1906.] MAMMALS FROM NORTH-EAST TRANSVAAL. 583 



14. Steatomys pratensis Peters. 



c? . 1217, 1238, 1254, 1270. $ . 1221, 1222, 1230, 1239, 1248, 

 1252. 



Specimen 1270, a male, is immensely larger than any of the 

 other individuals of the series, but it is very old, its teeth being 

 quite worn down. Its skull is 26"5 mm. in total length, thus 

 equalling the typical skull of aS'. bocagei, but the latter belonged to 

 a much younger individual. The two equally old female skulls 

 measure 25 mm. in length. 



" Tchangaan name ' Ntenyane.' 



" Common and confined to the low country. They sleep 

 throughout the winter, roughly from April to October, in a grass 

 nest at the end of their burrow. All the specimens were dug out 

 and were excessively fat and unable to move fast. The natives, 

 who consider them a great delicacy, say they cannot find them in 

 the summer, and firmly believe they tui-n into bats." — C. H. B. G. 



15. Mus CHEYSOPHiLus de Wint. 



d. 1245, 1267, 1304. $. 1256. 

 " Tchangaan name ' Magundane.' 



" Common everywhere, especially so in the undergrowth in 

 kloofs and in outbuildings. Nocturnal only." — C. H. B. G. 



16. Mus coucha Smith. 



cJ. 1220, 1225, 1226, 1237, 1250, 1306. ? . 1234. 

 " Tchangaan names ' Mkundlo ' or ' Magundane ' (a I'at), 

 Very common." — C. H. B. G. 



17. Lepus zuluensis Thos. & Schw. 



d. 1266. ?. 1294, 1313. 



In oiu' paper dealing with the mammals obtained by Mr. Grant 

 inZululand a Hare, belonging to the saxaiilis-grou-p, was described 

 as a new subspecies under the name of Le/jms saocaiilis zuluensis *. 

 On the receipt of the material with which the present paper deals 

 a careful examination of the whole group was undeitaken, and 

 we are led to the conclusion that no intergrading takes place 

 between the large-eared Hare, Lepus saxaiilis, and its eastern 

 I'epresentative. We therefore consider the small-eared one to be 

 Vv^orthy of specific rank. 



" Tchangaan name ' Nfundla.' 



" This species is fairly common in stony places and on the sandy 

 flats, especially round old mealie-patches. They move about only 

 at night and spend the day under a bush or in the long grass." — 

 0. K B. G. 



18. Eaphicerus sharpei colonicus, subp. n. 

 dr. 1278, 1279. 



Similar in all essential characters to the true shar-jKi of Nyasa, 



*■ P. Z. S. 1905, i. p. 270. 



