554 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM ^^^^ ^^^ 



My collection has been deposited in the Smithsonian Institution, 

 United States National Museum, Washington, D.C. 



National Science Foundation grants G6498 and G17941 provided 

 the funds that made possible the completion of this paper. Trans- 

 portation and lodging were provided by the Turkish Forestry Service. 

 Messrs. Salih Atalay, Mehmet Betil, Hamit Fisek, and Helmut 

 Kownatski assisted in the field work. Dr. W. P. Crowcroft, British 

 Museum (Natural History), Dr. Th. Haltenorth, Zoological Museum, 

 Munich, and Dr. K. Zimmermann, Berlin Zoological Museum, 

 allowed me to examine their collections of mammals from Turkey. 

 The library staff, Texas Technological College, Lubbock, Tex. 

 handled efficiently my requests for literature. Mrs. Osborn was the 

 camp cook on the Anatolian expeditions. 



Family Erinaceidae 



Hedgehogs (Kirpiler) 

 Erinaceus europaeus Linnaeus 



Common hedgehog (adi kirpi, kandosere). 



This animal is widely distributed in Europe and Asia (Ellerman and 

 Morrison-Scott, 1951), on many of the islands in the Aegean Sea 

 (Wettstein, 1941), and it is common to all parts of Turkey except 

 possibly the high mountains and the open plains. On the steppe it 

 is probably limited to the watercourses as indicated by the records 

 from southeastern Turkey, northern Syria, Iraq, and Iran (fig. 1). 

 The geographic range extends along the Levant southward into Israel. 

 Bodenheimer (1958) said that "stragglers had been found as far south 

 as Ruhama and Gaza." 



The localities of the collection and the measurements of my specimens 

 are as follows: 



The facial patterns of these specimens match the illustrations of 

 Erinaceus europaeus roumanicus (Herter, 1938) and the "ostliche 

 Formen" of Van den Brink (1956). The facial patterns of the speci- 

 mens from Tarsus are, however, more like the Rhodes type. 



Specimens from Istanbul and Yalova have a single color band on 

 the majority of the spines. Two color bands are present on the spines 

 of specimens from Tarsus and Talas. Single color bands have been 

 reported from northeastern Anatolia, northern Greece, the islands of 



