HAMILTON: HF.TKKOCEPHALIS, AFRICAN BlRROWlNt; RODENT. 1/9 
Map of Africa, showing distriliulion of the Rodent Genus H ctcrocephahis. 
Range is indicated in Mack. 
Habits. 
Hcteroccphalits is strictly fossorial in its haljits. Dfake-Rrockman 
(1910) referring to H. glaber has this to say: "This peculiar rat lives 
in burro^vs under the ground. These burrows extend for great distances 
and have exits at intervals, through which the mud dug out during the 
burrowing is shot in jerks. These small tumuli look like miniature vol- 
canoes Avhen the earth is beine shot out of them. The best wav to eet 
