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A. Si/lmticus. When skinning a specimen, palling and pressing mnst be avoided. 

 The hair is smoother in yonng specimens than in older ones, and their striping 

 therefore more regular. — K. J. 



7. Dipodillus campestris. — At Alger I onh- canght two specimens, both adult, 

 in the fields between Chateau Hydra and Sidi-Yaya, and saw a third in day-time 

 cross a main road, jumping like Apodemns syleatims. I did not meet with the 

 species at Hammam Rirha, where, however, our short stay was marred by bad 

 weather, and trapping only done to a limited extent.— K. J. 



II. GUELT-ES-STEL. 



This place is situated between Boghari and Djelfa, in the centre of the High 

 Plateau. As the time was limited the natives were asked to bring in mammals 

 alive, and thus we received qnite a number of specimens. But, as ia generally the 

 case under such circumstances, the result in Siphonaptera was not proportionate. 

 If a mammal is canght by hand, or handled a good deal, the fleas leave it, as we 

 have noticed ourselves at home with mice and moles treated in that way. However, 

 some nests of mammals were also brought in with the young, and these gave better 

 results. We examined about two dozen live Elephantuim rozeti, which is fairly 

 frequent among the rocks, but did not find a single flea on them. The commonest 

 mammal on the High Plateau is undoubtedly Meriones shaici, whose burrows are 

 found everywhere under the Zizyphus hushes. I put out a number of traps in 

 places where Crocidura might possibly occur, but did not find a single specimen. 

 The range of hills in which Guelt-es-Stel lies offers many localities physiographically 

 different, and may well be worth exploring for a collector of mammals. 



III. KHENOHELA. 



The town of Khenchela is situated at the eastern extremity of the Aures 

 Mountains in Bast Algeria. It is the terminus of the railway crossing the plain of 

 the Haracta tribe from Aiu-Beida southward. We did not collect many mammals, 

 as our time was fully occupied with the Lepidoptcra, which were very abundant. 

 Besides Jacultts oiientalis and the inevitable Meriones shawi which the natives 

 brought in, 1 trapped the following : 



1. Crocidura russula. In the valley east of the town there is a plentiful 

 supply of water — a deep brook running north, which contains a good amount of 

 clear water even in the height of the dry season, and turns into a river during the 

 rainy season. In the luxuriant vegetation of this valley russula appeared to be 

 fairly abundant. — K. J. 



2. Mus algirus was obtained in the same valley in small numbers. — K. J. 



3. Mus muscultis was apparently common in the town, and we also trajjped 

 it some distance away in an old Meriones burrow, and among the ruins of a smah 

 house. — K. J. 



4. Dipodillus campestris, in a paler form than the one collected at Alger, was 

 found in traps set under rocks and thorn-bushes, and a pregnant female was 

 obtained in a trap pnt into a fresh burrow made under a tuft of halfa grass. A 

 young specimen was observed late at night when I retnrned from moth-collecting. 

 It jumped like an Apodemus si/lcaticus, for which I mistook it ; bnt when I had 



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