34 EINAR LÖNNBERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION , ETC. 
COndylobasal Llengbla « betett ie Fen s ellen ke TSE 160 mm. 
Basalulengtbeay. få (ax cert > anled IAN 151» 
Zygomatie breadth =. « + « ss SEE Be El CRGETE. 130,5 » 
Interorbital DProad' ta ten ker 0 östers RS SIST ESVEAS RSA SAR 43,5 » 
Least postorbital breadth <. .... OS NG SSL NI AD 
Distance between postorbital PEOCOBBOS. Hej strike sus Sr 80 
Length 'of nasals mesially 4 tv LI NIA. CORE SSR 44 oo» 
Greatest combined breadth of nasals in front . . . . . .". 33 > 
Len gt ofSpelk = de es eöraför der SA (ASK AL Kn 2156, >» 
Distance between bulle in front . . . . . . SIE STEN Ls 205 TER 
Width of palatal opening at sut. palatopterygoidea . . . . . 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 Rhipicephalus 
armatus which never have been found on this animal before.! 
Glires. 
Sciuride. 
Heliosciurus kenig NEUMANN. 
NEUMANN: WNitzber. 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 28th 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 (»Rép. 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 
!' Conf. L. G. NEUMANN: Ixodides. Ark. f. Zool. Bd. 7, n:o 24, p. 6. » Stockholm 1912. 
