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deep and rich, and the shoulders equally covered with shaggy hair and sufi'ased with 

 fulvous (not clear grey). Hands and feet nearly wholly deep glossy black. 



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



Head and body 378 mm. ; tail 250 ; hind foot 70 ; ear 26. 



Skull : condylo-basal length 71 ; basal length 67 ; zygomatic breadth 38"5 ; median 

 length of nasals 12"5 ; palatal length 38 ; greatest diameter of p* 6. 



Type. Male, adult but not old. B.M. no. 6.12.4.29. Original number 133. 

 Collected 30th April, 1906, by Mr. R. E. Dent. A second specimen (No. 671) was 

 collected on the same day by Mr. R. B. Woosnam. 



Two examples of true C. fasciahis, collected in Zululand by Mr. C. H. B. Grant, 

 measure — head and body 333 and 335 mm., tails 207 and 209 mm. respectively. 

 No. 671 oi macrurus measures — head and body 380, tail 270 mm. There is evidently, 

 therefore, so material a difference both in size and in length of tail between the 

 Ruwenzori form and the South-African that subspecific distinction is necessary, in 

 spite of the close resemblance in other characters. 



[Only met with on the plains among the acacia trees around the soutb end of 

 Ruwenzori. They live in small colonies or family-parties in burrows in the sandy soil. 

 They are partially diurnal. They were rare near Ruwenzori, but a little further east 

 in the district of Ankole they are said to be quite numerous. Native name " Mugere." 

 — R. B. W.] 



Family Sc i URi d.e, 



41. SCIURUS STANGERI CENTRICOLA Thos. 



c? . 687. Mpanga Forest, Fort Portal. 5000 ft. 



[A few of these Squirrels were seen in the Mpanga Forest, but they were not at all 

 common. — R. B. W.] 



42. SciUKUS EUWENZOEii Schwann. (Plate XXII.) / 



6 . 231, 247, 248, 272, 626 ; 42, 53, 246. $ . 34, 226, 614, 621, 627 ; 273, 616, 

 617. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori. 6500-8500 ft. 



As Thomas has pointed out *, this Squirrel is not related to S. rufohrachiatus, but 

 is an entirely different species, with two upper premolars, S. rufohrachiatus having 

 only one. 



[Plentiful on Ruwenzori from 6500 ft. up to 8500 ft., the boundaries of the forest- 

 zone. They have a loud chattering call. — R. B. W.] 



43. SCIUEUS EUFOBRACHIATTTS NYANS^. Neum. 



? . 686. Mpanga Forest, Fort Portal. 5000 ft. 



* Ann. Mag. jST. H. (7) xix. p. 121 (1907). 



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