1 1 2 MAMMALS. 



Mediterranean district, viz. Italy south of the Apennines, Greece, the south of Spain, and the islands 

 of the Mediterranean. It uiiglit have been expected that, as is the case with many other animals, 

 it should, seeing it extends over so much of the Mediterranean district, have also ranged over the 

 whole ; but this is not the case, for C. Niloticus of the French Institute takes its place on the 

 south of the Mediterranean. That species, although very like it, differs fiom it in the osteology of 

 the head. 



