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tail very short, concealed ; feet and limbs very small; head and ears 
nude, sooty-coloured ; belly very thinly clad with yellowish hairs ; spines 
ringed dark brown and whitish, or whitish with a broad brown sub- 
terminal ring, tipped white.” —/erdon. 
SizE.—Head and body about 6 inches. Dr. Anderson considers 
this as identical with 2. coWaris. 
No. 152. ERINACEUS PICTUS. 
The Painted Hedgehog. 
Hasirat.—Central India, Goona, Ulwar, Agra, Kurrachee. 
DescRIPTION.—Similar to the above, but the tips of the spines are 
more broadly white, and the brown bands below not so dark; the ears 
are somewhat larger than mcropus, and the feet narrower and not so 
long. 
No. 153. ERINACEUS GRAYI. 
Hasirat.—North-west India. 
DescripTion.—The general colour is blackish-brown ; the spines are 
narrowly tipped with black, succeeded by a narrowish yellow band ; 
then a blackish-brown band, the rest of the spine being yellowish ; the 
broad dark-brown band is so strongly developed as to give the animal 
its dark appearance when viewed from the side; sore animals are, 
however, lighter thay others. The feet are large ; the fore-feet broad, 
somewhat truncated, with moderately long toes and powerful claws. 
SizE.—Head and body about 62 inches. 
No. 154. ERINACEUS BLANFORDI (Anderson). 
Hapitat.—Sind, where one specimen was obtained by? Mires We Ds 
Blanford, at Rohri. 
DescripTion.—Muzzle rather short, not much pointed 3 ears mode- 
rately large, but broader than long, and rounded at the tips; feet larger 
and broader than in the next species, with the first toe more largely 
developed than in the last. The spines meet in a point on the forehead, 
and there is no bare patch on the vertex. Each spine is broadly tipped 
with deep black, succeeded by a very broad yellow band, followed by a 
dusky brown base; fur deep brown; a few white hairs on chin and 
anterior angle of ear. 
SIZE.—Head and body, 5°36 inches. 
No. 155. ERINACEUS JERDONI (Anderson). 
Hasirat.—Sind, Punjab frontier. 
Description.—Muzzle moderately long and pointed ; ears large 
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