Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 117 1965 Number 3517 



HEDGEHOGS AND SHREWS OF TURKEY 



By Dale J. Osborn ^ 



Very little has been written on the Order Insectivora (bocek yiyenler 

 familyasi) of Turkey. Available, however, are a few reports on collec- 

 tions of shrews (see species discussions) as well as Wettstein's (1941) 

 analysis of subspeciation in the European hedgehog. Some informa- 

 tion on the natm*al history of Insectivora was compiled by Tolunay 

 and Tuncok (1938). My collections have extended the known ranges 

 of several species and added to the knowledge of their ecology and 

 distribution. 



I have written elsewhere on the geography and the vegetation of 

 Turkey (Osbom, 1962). Several good references are Bell (1931), 

 Neuhauser (1936), Fisher (1950), Kosswig (1955), and the Food and 

 Agriculture Organization of the United Nations report (1959). 



I have put into parentheses equivalents of geographical and other 

 names. The Turkish names of animals are mostly from Tolunay and 

 Tuncok (1938). All measurements are in millimeters. The follo^ving 

 abbreviations have been used to simplify tabulations: HBL, for head 

 and body length; foot, for the length of the hindfoot with the claw, 

 unless indicated otherwise; CbL, condylobasal length; RBr, rostral 

 breadth; ZW, zygomatic width; and B.M., British Museum (Natural 

 History) . 



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