SUPPLEMENT 
TO THE 
Annals of the Transvaal Museum, No. 2, 
OCTOBER, 1908. 
A NEW SHREW ~FR0M PON DO LAND, 
By E. C. Chubb, F.Z.S., Acting Curator Rhodesia Museum. 
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While engaged in working out the collection of South 
African shrews belonging to the Transvaal Museum I find 
among them two examples of a very distinct new species of 
Myosorex. In honour of the collector, Mr. H. H. Swinny, it 
may be known as 
SVlyosorex swirmyi, n.sp. 
A very dark-coloured species with a comparatively large skull. 
General colour of upper surface very dark brown, almost black; 
underside a little lighter. Hairs on back about 6 mm. long, 
dark slate-grey for about four-fifths of their length, followed by 
a ring of black, and tipped with brown, this latter giving a fine 
grizzled appearance to the general colour of the back. Upper 
sides of hands and feet black ; claws light-coloured. Tail, above 
and below, black, with ver}^ short hairs and scarcely any tuft at 
tip. Skull in general characters similar to that in other mem- 
bers of the genus, except that the palate is lengthened 
anteriorly, with the result that the tooth-row measures more 
than in any of the other species. Main cusp of 1 1 scarcely 
exceeding I 2 in downward projection. 
Dimensions of the co-types (measured in the flesh), 2 
females ; head and body 74, 81 mm. ; tail 45, 48 ; hind -foot, 15, 
13; ear 11, 9. Skulls: back of condyle to front face of I 1 
235, 24 ; basal length 21, 21*5 ; greatest breadth across brain- 
case 112, 114 ; length of upper tooth series 11*7, 117, 
Hab. : Port St. John’s District, Western Pondoland. 
Alt. 200-feet. 
Co-types : Two females. Collector’s numbers 172, 173. 
Collected 21st and 15th April, 1908, respectively, by 
Mr. H.H. Swinny. 
Type is in the Transvaal Museum. 
