112 INSECTIVORA 



Ovile Seardu and two from Zinnigas) in the Genoa museum 

 appear to be strictly of the russida type, though without com- 

 parison of the skulls it is impossible to say whether they are most 

 nearly related to true russida or to skida. Their average and 

 extreme measurements (from sj^irit specimens) are as follows : 

 head and body, 65-2 (60-69); tail, 36-8 (33-6-39); hind 

 foot, 12 (11 -8-12 -2). 



1 La Foce de Vizzavona, Col. J. W. Yerbury (c & r). 93. 9. 15. 3, 

 Corsica. 

 S al. Bastia, Corsica. Mrs. Southwell (c & p). 6. 3. 14. 1. 



{Type of species.) 

 ? al. Bastia, Corsica. Mrs. Southwell (c & p). 9. 6. 14. 1. 



CROCIDURA BALEARICA Miller. 



1901. Crocidura russida Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 39. 



1907. Crocidura balearica Miller, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., xx, 



p. 391, November, 1907. Type in British Museum. 

 1910. Crocidura balearica Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Enrope, p. 49. 



Type locality. — San Cristobal, Minorca, Balearic Islands. 



Geographical distribution. — Balearic Islands, Spain. 



Diagnosis. — In general similar to Crocichira cyrnensis, but 

 tooth-row distinctly shorter than in the Corsican form. 



Colour.— The three skins are more noticeably brownish above 

 than in the one skin of cyrnensis at present known, though the 

 actual elements of the colour are the same. Feet with the same 

 colour pattern. 



Sliull and teeth. — In cranial and dental characters the Balearic 

 shrew agrees with Crocidura cyrnensis, except that the mandible 

 is less robust (essentially as in the small races of C. russula) and 

 the tooth-row is distinctly shorter. Brain-case somewhat more 

 flattened than in the small races of C. russula. 



Measurements. — External measurements of type (female) : 

 head and body, 62 ; tail, 45 ; hind foot, 12* 5. Extei'nal measure- 

 ments of two other specimens from the type locality (male and 

 female) : head and body, 71 and 72 ; tail, — and 45 ; hind foot, 

 12*5 and 12. For cranial measurements see Table, p. 113. 



Specimens examined.— Three, all from the type locality. 



6,29 San Cristobal, Minorca; 0. Thomas and R.I. Pocock 0. 7. 1. 40-42. 

 Balearic Islands. (c & p). 



(0. 7. 1. 42. Type of species.) 



