1904.] MAMMALS OF THE UGANDA BOUNDARY COMMISSION. 461 



Hah. Burumba, Ankole. 



Type. Male. B. M. No. 4.2.6.7. Original No. 542. Collected 

 Septembei- 1903. 



8. LuTRA CAPENSis Scliinz. 

 5 . 4. Victoria Nyanza. 



9. Herpestes galera robustus Gray. 

 $ (in spirit). Buinimba, Ankole. 



10. Helogale undulata Peters. 



J . 641. $ . 573 ; 574 (in spirit). Burumba, Ankole. 

 Colour of iris "tawny olive" {W. G. D.). 



11. SCIURUS RUFOBRACHIATUS NYANS.^ Neum. 



2. 88. Msozi. 



12. Graphiurus murinus Desm. 



S ■ 514. Burumba, Ankole. 



Colour of iris " seal-brown ^' {W. G. I).). 



Herr Neumann has given the varietal name of suhrufus * to a 

 Dormouse of this group from Tanga, on the coast opposite Pemba, 

 but its character, a strong reddish suffusion on the chest, is one 

 often due to a glandular staining of the hairs and may be found 

 in examples from all localities. A. tSmith's Myoxus erythro- 

 hronchus " t was founded on a similar aberration. 



13. Tatera fall ax. 



Taterafallax Thos. & Schw., Abstr. P. Z. S. 1904, No. 6, p. 22, 

 April 26. 



c? . 502 (juv.). $. 512; 513. Burumba, Ankole. 



Colour of iris black (IF. G. D.). 



A large Tatera with a white-tipped tail and indistinct grooves 

 on the upper incisors. 



General colour above dark sandy, brighter on the sides, where 

 it is almost " ochraceous buff." Individvial haii's of back about 

 15 mm. in length, slate-gray for their basal half, buff- yellow sub- 

 terminally, with a black tip. Under surface dull white, shai-ply 

 defined ; the hairs white to their bases. Top of head like back ; 

 muzzle and forehead rather darkei- ; area between eye and ear 

 whitish, with a dark patch below. Ears slightly larger than is 

 usual in this group ; dark, nearly naked, with a white patch at 

 their posterior bases. Uppei- and outer sui-faces of fore limbs 

 buffy yellow ; fore and hind feet pure white. Tail considerably 

 longei" than the head and body ; its proximal lialf indistinctly 

 bicolor, pale bi-own above, white below ; distal half white through- 

 out ; tip not tufted. 



Skull sti'ongly built, larger than in any of the idlied species. 



* Zool. Jahrb. Syst. xiii. p. 547 (1900). 

 t Zool. .Jourii. vol. iv. p. 438. 



