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extreme : ground colour a clear buff slightly more yellowisli than 

 that of Ridgway, fading nearly to cream-buff on head and neck, 

 the black "lining" conspicuous and tending to produce a clouded 

 effect along middle of back. 



All of the Italian skins examined * are essentially like the 

 typical Sicilian specimens. The same is true of the majority of 

 those from Spain ; but in this series occur also the extremes of 

 yellowness and greyness. The skins from Corfu and Cephalonia 

 are about typical, while those from the mainland of Greece show 

 a decided tendency toward the yellow extreme. 



Measurements. — Adult male and female from Palermo, Sicily : 

 head and body, 100 and 102; tail, 93 and 91; hind foot, 23 

 and 22. Average and extremes of five adults from Sorrento, 

 Italy : head and body, 100-8 (99-104) ; tail, 94-6 (90-99) ; hind 

 foot, 21 "9 (21-23). Average and extremes of seven adults from 

 Genoa, Italy : head and body, 102-8 (9-2-109) ; tail, 87 (80-95) ; 

 hind foot, 22 (21-23). Adult male and female from Corfu, 

 Greece: head and body, 98 and 100; tail, 100 and 97; hind 

 foot, 22 and 21-5 ; ear from meatus, 16-7 and 17. Adult male 

 and female from Cephalonia, Greece: head and body, 101 and 

 100; tail, 99 and 98 ; hind foot, 23 and 21 ; ear from meatus, 

 17-2 and 16-4. Adult male and female from Tatoi, near Athens, 

 Greece: head and body, 101 and 100; tail, 106 and 106; hind 

 foot, 23-4 and 21-8; ear from meatus, 16*2 and 16 3. Three 

 adult males from Valescure, Var, France: head and body, 104, 

 105 and 106; tail, 107, 100 and 108; hind foot, 23-4, 22-4 

 and 23; ear from meatus, 18-2, 17-4 and 17. Average and 

 extremes of ten adults from the vicinity of Nimes, Gard, France : 

 head and body, 104-2 (98-110) ; tail, 97-9 (93-105); hind foot, 

 22-9 (21-6-24-3); ear from meatus, 16-3 (15-17-6). Four 

 adult males from Silos, Burgos, Spain : head and body, 97, 98, 

 101 and 102 ; tail, 92, 88, 99 and 105 ; hind foot, 22, 23, 23-2 

 and 23 ; ear from meatus, 18-6, 17, 17 and 17. Average and 

 extremes of eight adults from the Province of Granada, Spain 

 (Guadix and Venta del Baul) : head and body, 105-8 (100-113) ; 

 tail, 109-5 (100-128); hind foot, 24-1 (21-4-25); ear from 

 meatus, 17*5 (16-5-19). Average and extremes of ten adults 

 from the Province of Alicante, Spain (Elche and Alcoy) : head 

 and body, 104-4 (100-107); tail, 103-2 (92-109); hind foot, 

 23-2 (21-24); ear from meatus, 18-3 (17-19). For cranial 

 measurements see Table, p. 820. 



Specimens examined. — Two hundred and seventy-three, from the 

 following localities : — 



Spain : Guadix, Granada, 5 ; Venta del Baul, Granada, 11 ; Elche, 

 Alicante, 8 ; Alcoy, Alicante, 3 ; Dehesa de Valencia, 3 ; Barracas, Cas- 

 tellon, 1 ; Villalba, Madrid, 9 ; B6jar, Salamanca, 10 ; Silos, Burgos, 20 ; 



* Except those from the vicinity of Turin, which somewhat approach 

 true sylvaticus. 



