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dark shading, the rest with a drab sub-terminal band, the general 

 effect of spiny area scarcel)- siDeckled, and nearly as pale as fur. 

 In the type specimen the fur is a dull cream-buff, and the feet 

 are washed with broccoli-brown ; spines drab brown with light 

 tips, essentially as in true europseus. 



Measurements. — Type : hind foot (dry), 40. Adult male and 

 female from Burgos, Spain : head and body, 270 and 250 ; tail, 

 30 and 28 ; hind foot, 43 and 41. Adult male and female from 

 Pajares, Leon : head and body, 252 and 249 ; tail, 22 and 21 ; 

 hind foot, 44 and 42. For cranial measurements see Table, 

 p. 125. 



Specimens examined.— Twenty, from the followiug localities in Spain : 

 Arrechavaleta, Vitoria, 1 ; Pajares, Leon, 7 ; Burgos, 5 ; Palacios de la 

 Sierra, Burgos, 1; Bejar, Salamanca, 2; Seville, 4. 



Bemarhs. — The Spanish hedgehog is a moderately well 

 differentiated form. Extreme specimens are easily distinguish- 

 able from typical europseus ; but in general the difference between 

 the two races must be regarded as an average one. 



i. Arrechavaleta, Vitoria, 0. Thomas (p). 8. 2. 9. 9. 



Spain. {N. Gonzalez.) 



(J, 2 ?, 9 juv. Pajares, Leon. (N. Gem- 0. Thomas (p). 8. 2. 9. 2-6. 



zalez.) 



6, 9, 9 juv. Burgos. G. S. MiUer (c). 8. 8. 4. 17-19. 



2 6. Burgos. (N. Gonzalez.) 0. Thomas (p). 8. 2. 9. 10-11. 



2 6 juv. Bejar, Salamanca. {N. 0. Thomas (p). 8. 2. 9. 7-8. 



Gonzalez.) 



i, 2 9, 1. SeviUe. {Dr. A. Ruiz.) Lord Lilford (p). 95. 3. 3. 1-4. 



[Type of subspecies 95. 3. 3. 2.) 



Erinaceus eueop.eus italicus Barrett-Hamilton. 



1857. Erinaceus europxus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 153 (part). 

 1900. Erinaceiis europxus italicus Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 



Hist., 7th ser., v, p. 3G4, April, 1900. Type in British Museum. 

 1910. Erinaceus europasus italicus Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, 



p. 39. 



Type localiti/. — Siena, Italy. 



(• eographical distribution. — Italian Switzerland, Ital}' and 

 Sardinia ; Corsica ? 



DuKjnosis. — Colour as in E. europseus europseus or slightly 

 paler ; size less than in the typical race, the largest skulls 

 probably not exceeding 59 mm. 



Colour. — The colour is about as in the paler iudi^■iduals of 

 typical europseus, though the speckling of the spin}' area seems in 

 general to be finer, and the underparts usually lack all heavy 

 dark clouding. 



Jleasureuients. — Adult female irom Curoggio, Ticino, Switzer- 

 land : head and body, 250; tail, 29 : liind foot, 41. Two adult 



