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Show 1904.] MAMMALS OF THE UGANDA BOUNDARY COMMISSION. 461 Hab. Burumba, Ankole. Type. Male. B. M. No. 4.2.6.7. Original No. 542. Collected September 1903. 8. LUTRA CAPENSIS Schinz. 2 • 4. Victoria Nyanza. 9. HERPESTES GALERA ROBUSTUS Gray. 2 (in spirit). Burumba, Ankole. 10. HELOGALE UNDULATA Peters. o*. 641. $. 573 ; 574 (in spirit). Burumba, Ankole. Colour of iris "tawny olive" (W. G. D.). 11. SCIURUS RUFOBRACHIATUS NYANSiE Neum. 2. 88. Msozi. 12. GRAPHIURUS MURINUS Desm. o*. 514. Burumba, Ankole. Colour of iris "seal-brown" (IF. G. D.). Herr Neumann has given the varietal name of subrufus * to a Dormouse of this group from Tanga, on the coast opposite Pemba, but its character, a strong reddish suffusion on the chest, is one often clue to a glandular staining of the hairs and may be found in examples from all localities. A. Smith's Myoxus erythro-bronchus " f was founded on a similar aberration. 13. TATERA FALLAX. Tatera fallax Thos. & Schw., Abstr. P. Z. S. 1904, No. 6, p. 22, April 26. J . 502 (juv.). 2 • 512 ; 513. Burumba, Ankole. Colour of iris black (W. G. D). A large Tatera with a white-tipped tail and indistinct grooves on the upper incisors. General colour above dark sandy, brighter on the sides, where it is almost "ochraceous buff." Individual hairs of back about 15 m m . in length, slate-gray for their basal half, buff-yellow sub-terminally, with a black tip. Under surface dull white, sharply defined ; the hairs white to their bases. Top of head like back ; muzzle and forehead rather darker; area between eye and ear whitish, with a dark patch below. Ears slightly larger than is usual in this group ; dark, nearly naked, with a White patch at their posterior bases. Upper and outer surfaces of fore limbs buffy yellow; fore and hind feet pure white. Tail considerably longer than the head and body ; its proximal half indistinctly bicolor, pale brown above, white below ; distal half white throughout ; tip not tufted. i Skull strongly built, larger than in any of the allied species. * Zool. Jahrb. Syst. xiii. p. 547 (1900). f Zool. Journ. vol. iv. p. 438. |