84 BINAR LONNBBRG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 



Condylobasal length 160 mm. 



Basal length 151 » 



Zygomatic breadth 130,5 » 



Interorbital breadth .' 43,5 » 



Least postorbital breadth 57 » 



Distance between postorbital processes 80 » 



Length of nasals mesially 44 » 



Greatest combined breadth of nasals in front 33 » 



Length of p* 21,6 » 



Distance between bullae in front 20,5 » 



Width of palatal opening at sut. palaiopterygoidea 13,4 » 



This skull offers the strange anomaly that p* and m* are entirely missing on 

 the right side, and there is no trace of any alveole, nor of any healed wound on the 

 jaw bone so that this defect is evidently inborn. 



The Cheetah in question was infested with ticks of the species BMpicephalus 

 armatus which never have been found on this animal before.^ 



Glires. 

 SciiirldaB. 



Heliosciurus kenise Neumann. 



Neumann: Sitzber. Ges. Nat. Freunde. Berlin 1902, p. 176. 



In the journal quoted O, Neumann has shortly described a Squirrel from Kenia 

 without giving any measurements of the animal or its skull. It is thus chiefly for 

 geographical reasons that two Squirrels obtained 28*^ of Jan. in the primeval forest 

 on the eastern slopes of Kenia are referred to this species. Five more Squirrels shot 

 in the forest at Meru boma and a sixth from a forest two hours march to the north 

 of the latter locality are quite similar to those from the Kenia forest. The general 

 colour of the upper parts is very dark olive brown. The hairs are black with shiny 

 black tips, a subtermina] dull yellowish white ring, and a lower whitish ring which 

 often has a more or less strong tint of fawn. The underfur is richly developed, 

 long and reaching the level of the lower light ring. The underfur is broadly tipped 

 with fawn (in some specimens more ochraceous, in some others more reddish which 

 blends together with the lower light ring of the hair. Basally the underfur is black. 

 The lower side is dark brown and the hairs are ringed with fawn, sometimes with 

 yellowish tan colour (»Eep. de Couleurs» 315), In some specimens hairs with whitish 

 rings are found mesially and on the inside of the hind legs, but even in such spe- 

 cimens the majority of the hairs are ringed with fawn or yellowish. From the throat 

 a white patch extends to between the fore legs. This white mark which Neumann 



1 Conf. L. G. Neumann; Ixodides. Ark. f. Zool. Bd. 7, u:o 24, p. 6. Stockholm 1912. 



