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Show 928 MR. OLDFIELD THOMAS ON MAMMALS [Dec 14, 10. BHYNCHOCYON REICHARDI, Beichenow. a, h. cT $ . Fort Hill, July 1896. These specimens are the first examples of this beautiful Bhynchocyon that the Museum has received. 11. BHYNCHOCYON CIRNEI, Pet. a. Mt. Zomba, 5000 ft., 24 Dec, 1896. 12. PETRODROMUS TETRADACTYLUS, Pet. o. $ . Zomba, Aug. 1896. Attention may be directed to the differences which distinguish from each other the East-African Petrodromus (P. sultan1), that occurring on the Eoviuna B. (P. rovumce), and the typical Zambesi form. (See above, p. 434.) 13. MACROSCELIDES BRACHYRHYNCHUS, Smith. a-/. Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft., June, July, 1896. g-l. In spirit. Nyika Plateau, 6000-7000 ft, June, July, 1896. j-l: Fort Hill, July 1896. These specimens belong clearly to the same species as an Elephant-Shrew from Mashona and Matabili, of which the Museum possesses a considerable series, thanks to the efforts of Messrs. Darling, Selous, and Marshall. For this species I had, until recently, considered that the proper name was M. fuscus, Peters, founded on a melanistic individual from Boror, near the mouth of the Zambesi, an individual which, Dr. Matschie is agreed with me, is specifically ideutical with the reddish specimens also obtained by Dr. Beters at Boror, Tette, and Senna. On sending one of the Nyika examples to Dr. Matschie I am assured by him that it is precisely identical with at least one of the Tette specimens (which are rather variable Inter se), and may be accepted as representative of the typical non-melanistic coloration of M. fuscus. But it has now been suggested to me by Mr. De Winton that this widely-spread Zambesi species is not really separable from Smith's M. brachyrhynchus, and after a careful comparison with Smith's types I cannot resist coming to the same conclusion. The two co-types have their hind feet slightly shorter than any of the examples of " M. fuscus" but otherwise I can find no reason for distinguishing them. At the same time I am assured by Dr. Matschie that Bohm's Marungu Macroscelides, referred by Noack to M. alexundri, Og., is also precisely similar to the Nyika example, a further instance of the resemblance between the faunas of these two localities. 14. MACROSCELIDES BRACHYRHYNCHUS MALOS^E, subsp. n. a-c. Mt. Malosa, 5500 ft,, 22-27 Nov., 1896. a. Type. Besides the series of M. brachyrhynchus sent by Mr. Whyte from 1 Misprinted sultani in the original description. The name is a substantive in apposition. |