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25. Crociduea niobe Thos. 



d . 205. ? . 236, 618. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori. 6000-7000 ft. 



General proportions of C. maurisca Thos., with which it shares the vinusnal 

 character of the almost entire absence of long bristles on the tail. Fur about 5 mm. 

 long on the back. General colour dark blackish -grey (*' blackish-slate "), with 

 indistinct silvery mottling. Under surface scarcely lighter, the tips of the hairs brown. 

 Hands and feet pale brown ; fore claws rather smaller than hind. Tail long, slender, 

 not incrassated, practically without longer bristles — a few present on the base only ; 

 uniformly blackish above and below. 



Skull normal in build, without the peculiar delicacy of that of C. maurisca; the 

 brain-case low, the muzzle stout and conical. Teeth as usual, the unicuspids broader 

 than long, very unlike the narrow slender teeth of C. maurisca. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — 



Head and body 68 mm. ; tail 63 ; hind foot 13 ; ear 10. 



Skull: greatest length (including incisors) 20; greatest breadth 9'1 ; length of 

 upper tooth-row 8'2. 



Type. Female. B.M. no. 6.7.1.32. Original number 618. Collected 10th January, 

 1 906, by Mr. B.. B. Woosnam. Three specimens. 



This Shrew may be readily distinguished from C. maurisca, the only species with its 

 proportions and tail-characters, by its more plumbeous colour and its broader skull and 

 teeth. 



[This Shrew was not met with on Euwenzori above 7000 ft. It appeared 

 to frequent the elephant-grass below the forest. ^ — E. B. W.] 



26. CflOCIDUEA sp. 



2 $ in spirits. Between Mawambi and Avakubi, E. Congo Forest. 

 Closely allied to C. niohe. 



27. Ckociduea fumosa montis Thos. 



d . 658. ? . 78, 659. Mubuku Valley, E. Euwenzori. 12,500 ft. 

 d . 160. ? . 161. Butagu Valley, W. Ruwenzori. 7000 ft. 



Size and other essential characters as in C. fumosa from Mount Kenya, but the fur 

 longer (hairs of back 7 "0-7 '5 mm.) and the general colour a dark plumbeous grey, 

 without the distinct brownish tone so marked in true C. fumosa. The ends of the hairs 

 blackish, with a silvery subterrainal ring. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — 



Head and body 77 mm. ; tail 61 ; hind foot 15 ; ear 11. 



Skull: greatest length (including incisors) 22 ; greatest breadth 10. 



Type. Female. B.M. no. 6.7.1.28. Original number 78. Collected 16th February, 

 1906, by Mr. R. E. Dent. 



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