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bable as mentioned above that at least some of them could be joined with others as 

 subspecies. Heller says for instance about his species E. phceus that it is » closely 

 allied to pulcher » . 



I obtained 5 specimens of the race described above in the thornbush country 

 north of Guaso Nyiri, partly not far from a waterplace called Thera, partly below 

 Chanler Palls. These specimens were all of them secured with the shotgun while 

 running through the bushes. In spite of their large eyes which give them the appea- 

 rance of being nocturnal in habits, these animals are seen moving about in full day- 

 light under a glaring sun. Only single spcimens were seen. When scared they ran 

 through the bushes to all appearance like a mouse, and I did not see them deserve 

 the name »Jumping Shrew. They were not very shy and did as a rule not run very 

 long each time. 



Soricidae. 



Sylvisorex sorelloides Lonnbbrg. 



LONNBEEe: Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 8 Vol. IX p. 67. 



This very interesting long-tailed Shrew was caught on the acacia-steppe near 

 Itiolu river, a tributary to Guaso Nyiri from its southern side. With regard to its 

 very long and almost rat-like tail and general proportions it appears to resemble S. 

 sorella Thomas^ described from the Masuku Plateau, Nyasaland. It differs by this 

 characteristic very markedly as well from S. lunaris Thomas and S. granti Thomas 

 from Ruwenzori, as from S. mundus Osgood from Kijabe, which all have the tail 

 shorter than, or at the most subequal with the length of head and body. 



The general colour above is dark brown (PL III fig. 1). The fur is rather long 

 (about 5 mm.) and soft but not very dense. It is dark plumbeous basally with long 

 brown tips, something between »raw umber* (n:o 301) and »brownish drab» (n:o 302, 

 Repert. de CouL), somewhat paler more greyish on the flanks. The lower side is 

 whitish by long white tips to the hair which are plumbeous grey basally. The hne 

 of demarcation between the colours of the upper and lower sides is not very sharply 

 defined. Hands and feet very slender, hairy. Fingers whitish except the fifth and 

 the lateral side of the fourth which are brown. The corresponding parts of the 

 hands as well are whitish xesp. brown. On the hind limbs only the two inner toes 

 and the corresponding parts of the feet are light. The tail is very long and slender, 

 quite murine in appearance, scaly and annelated, but at the same time covered with 

 a great number of short hair, which, however, do not conceal the annulation. The 

 tail is brown above and distinctly paler below. It has no longer bristles at all. 



The snout of the freshly caught animal was strikingly long and slender, almost 

 cvlindrical in shape and almost cleft at the end. The vibrissse are numerous. 



1 Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1897 p. 930. 



