Graphiurus parvus (True, 1893) . Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 16(95A):601.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kenya, Tana River, between the coast and Hameye .

DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Mali, Sudan, N Uganda and Kenya (see Hollister, 1919), Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania (see Swynnerton and Hayman, 1951). In W Africa see Rosevear (1969).

SYNONYMS: brockmani, dollmani, foxi, internus, personatus (see Allen, 1939, for citations).

COMMENTS: Schütter et al. (1985) discussed taxonomic problems associated with the small dormice occurring in savannahs, scrub, and woodlands of west, east, and southern Africa. Three species of this grade are provisionally recognized here; G. kelleni, G. olga, and G. parvus .