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hind foot, 36 ; ear, 25.* Adult female from Hatszeg, Hunyad, 

 Austria-Hungary : head and body, 190 ; tail, 225 ; hind foot, 38. 

 For cranial measurements see Table, p. 856. 



Specimens examined. — Twenty, from the following localities : — 

 Scotland: South Ronaldshay, Orkney Islands, 5 (Edinburgh). 

 England : Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, 1 ; Tring, Hertfordshire, 1 ; 

 London, 6 (including type of atcr JMillais) ; Lundy Island, Devonshire, 2. 

 Prance : Sark, Channel Islands, 1. 

 Switzerland : No exact locality, 1. 

 Austria-Hungary: Hatszeg, Hunyad, 2. 

 Portugal : San Miguel, Azores, 1. 



6 St. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, W. R. Butterfield 4. 1. 22. 1. 



England. (c & p). 



9 St. Tring, Hertfordshire. Hon. N. C. Roths- 1.5.22.8. 



child (c & p). 



2 St. London. A. Stedall (c & p). 



^, lal. London. C. J. Wilson (c & p). 86.4.5.1-2. 



St. London. E. Bidwell (c & p). 2. 4. 4. 1. 



6. London. J. G. Millais (p). 5. 7. 28. 1. 



(Type of liter :\lillais.) 



2 <?. Lundy Island, Devonshire. T. A. Coward (c & p). 7.12.19.1-2. 



9. Switzerland. (Ncujer.) E. R. Alston (p). 79. 9. 25. 40. 



6,9. Hatszeg, Hunyad, Tran- C. G. Danford (c). 3.2.2.22-24. 

 sylvania. 



S. San Miguel, Azores. Hon. W. Rothschild 3. G. 5. 15. 

 (ir. B. O. Gi-ant.) (p). 



Epimys rattus ALEXANDRixas Geoffroy. 



1803. Mux ali'xandrinus Geoffroy, Catal. ilammif. du Mus. Nat. d'Hist. 



Nat., Paris, p. 192 (Egypt). 

 1814. Musculua frugivorus Rafinesquc, Precis des Decouv. et Travaux 



Somiologiques, p. 13 (Sicily). 

 1825. Mus ti'cturum Savi, Nuovo Giorn. de' Letterati, Pisa, x, p. 74 (Pisa, 



Italy). 

 1827. Mijo.vus siculx Lesson, Man. de Mammalogie, p. 274 (Substitute for 



Musculus frugivarus Rafinesque). 

 1841. Mus sylvestris Pictet, j\Km. Soc. Phys. et d'Hist. Nat., Geneve, ix, 



p. 153 (Near Geneva, Switzerland). Alternative for Icucogaster. 

 1841. Mus leucogaster Pictet, ]M6m. Soc. Phys. et d'Hist. Nat., Geneve, ix, 



p. 154 (iSTear Geneva, Switzerland). 

 1841. [J/«s] ncmuralis de Selys-Longchamps, Atti della seconda Riunione 



degli Scienziati Italiani, Torino, 1840, p. 247 (Near Geneva, 



Switzerland). Accidental substitute for sylvesti-is Pictet. 

 1845. Mus incieti Schinz, Synops. Mamm., ii, p. 142 (Substitute for Irucu- 



gaster Pictet). 

 1857. Mus alexandrinus Blasius, Siiugethiere Dcutschlands, p. 31G. 

 1882. [Mus rattus] intermedins Niuni, Atti del reale Inst. Veneto, 5th ser., 



VII, p. 574 (Venice, Italy). 

 1910. J^lus (EphniiK) rattus intermedius and M. (F.) raltiis ale.viindrlnus 



Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, pp. 143, 144. 



Tijiir /(ico/////.-- Alexandria, Egypt. 



(ii'diirajiliicdl dis/rihntion. — Mediterranean region ; everywhere 

 abundant and not teniling to l)e replaced ))y Ejiiiiii/.i itnrcrtj'irus. 



* From ^fillais. 



