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Sylvisorex oriundus Hollister 



Plate II, Figure 2 

 Sylvisorex oriundus Hollistee, 1916, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXV, p. 



672, PI. vii, fig. 7 and PI. ix, figs. 4, 4a; PI. xi, fig. 1 (animal). 



"Type, No. 48554, Amer. Mus. Nat, Hist., skin and skull of adult 9 

 (teeth little worn) collected at Medje, Nava River, Belgian Congo, May 

 20, 1914, by Herbert Lang and James P. Chapin. Orig. No. 2368." 



Scutisorex congicus Thomas 

 Plate III 

 Scutisorex congicus Hollister, 1916, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist,, XXXV, p. 



673, PI. xi, fig. 2 (animal). Table of measurements of 15 specimens. 



Scutisorex congicus Allen, 1917, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVII, pp. 

 769-784, figs. 1-8, Pis. lxxxix-xcil Skull and skeleton (PI. xci, animal). Scuti- 

 sorex raised to the rank of a subfamily Scutisoricinse. 



Scutisorex (congicus) Schulte, 1917, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVII, 

 November 26, pp. 785-792. The lumbar vertebra? of Scutisorex. 



Specimens, 44: Bafwabaka, 2 (skin and 1 complete skeleton); 

 Medje, 42, including 1 in alcohol and 5 more or less complete skeletons. 



The highly specialized vertebral column of Scutisorex has been made 

 the subject of two special papers already published in this Bulletin (loc. 

 cit., supra), one of them, by the author of the present paper, on the 

 remarkable specialization of the vertebral column — unique, or without a 

 known counterpart, in mammals — with numerous illustrations; the 

 other, by Dr. H. von W. Schulte, on the lumbar vertebrae from the mor- 

 phogenetic viewpoint. In order to emphasize the taxonomic importance 

 of this surprising specialization the genus Scutisorex was raised to sub- 

 family rank under the name Sctjtisokicin^e. To the first of these 

 papers Mr. Lang contributed several pages of field notes. 



Macroscelidid^ 

 Rhynchocyon stuhlmanni stuhlmanni Matschie 

 Rhynchocyon stuhlmanni Matschie, 1893, Sitzber. Gesells. naturf. Freunde 

 Berlin, pp. 66-68. Andundi, Semliki River, two specimens, adult and young. 



Rhynchocyon stuhlmanni nudicaudata Lydekker, 1906, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 April 1907, p. 995. Mawambi district, Ituri Forest, Belgian Congo. One specimen. 



Represented by 5 specimens: Penge, 2 (l skin and skull; 1 alco- 

 holic), April 21, 1914; Avakubi, 2, November 13, 1913, and May 22, 

 1914. All are females, of which 2 are adult and 1 with the milk denti- 

 tion. Also a foetus in alcohol. 



The Museum Collection contains also an unsexed specimen of this 

 form from the Budongo Forests, east of Lake Albert; February 1911- 



