KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 48. N:O 5. 89 
plate. In my specimens the colour of the parts mentioned varies from the palest 
maize-yellow to rather pronounced orange-yellow. Sometimes this yellow tinge extends 
all over the throat, but oftener the latter is white in the middle. 
Considering the variation I think it is difficult to maintain any difference be- 
tween X. dabagala and rufifrons. 
The cranial measurements agree with those recorded by DoLLMAN in the largest 
specimens, but some fully adult are a little smaller. 
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MMA. | NUR: Al HAN 
Greatest JenetbRoftskaaul lt. fos slike se a Se 52 52 54,7 
Condylobasal -» ET FE TRE SN SENS Helin säges 47,7 47,2 51 | 
Condylobasilar » ER ESS TEDDE 0 SR SP RPEEISKAVSSE a. Ses Lag 42,4 | 42,3 45 
ZY OMSviCssWicoh. scr eo fe Fejlel AR ke ov ke FARAN dt LS RR Go NE — 30 29,2 
BILerorbiItaL MONTT) JIE fiol oh siste JPG ock a 14,2 15:7 15,5 
Length of nasalsi.,.. =. +. «ss sf 17 77 17 
Widt of palate inside m.! . . . SG ME a Se IOTNNAD PG a Z 7 7,3 | 
Kengtl of upper eheekteeth, < » «sto, e så sås eo eo & e of | 9,4 10 10:37 | 
These Ground BSquirrels lived in colonies and are rather shy. Their general 
colour agreed very well with the reddish gravel, and in the glare of the sun it was 
not easy to follow their movements with the eye, when they had been disturbed and 
ran for their holes. The vegetation around the colonies was always very scanty 
because the Squirrels had eaten almost everything palatable to them. The locality 
of a colony could therefore be detected already before any burrows had been seen. 
Sometimes a colony of Helogale was found at the same place. 
Myoxide. 
; — Graphiurus parvus dollmani Oscoop. 
Oscoop: Field. Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool. Ser. NOETEASDE0R 35 LOOS PE IDE 
A specimen caught at Kutu (between Fort Hall and Embu boma) ”'/1 1911 
agrees with regard to dimensions and colour with OsGoop'”s description except that 
the blackish area around the eye is only little developed and not well defined. The 
skull is unfortunately broken so that all skull characters cannot be verified, but 
those about which information can be obtained are in accordance with the descrip- 
tion of the type which is from »Ulu Kenya Hills, British East Africa. 
K. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. Band 48. N:o 5. 12 
