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other rodent I have measured ; their face with the usual 

 deep outer and obsolescent inner groove. Lower incisors 

 with one broad and partially doubled external groove and 

 the usual obsolescent inner one. 



Dimensions of the type (measured on the dry skin) : — 



Head and body 158 mm. j tail 75 ; hind foot 26 ; ear 20. 



Skull : tip of nasals to back of frontals 27*5 ; zygomatic 

 breadth 18*5; nasals 16'5x7'5; interorbital breadth 4*1; 

 breadth of brain-case 14*5 ; height of supraorbital edge 

 from alveolus of m 2 1 1*6 ; palatilar length 16'3 ; diastema 

 8'5 ; upper molar series 8*2. 



Hob. Cameroons Mountains. Alt. 7000'. 



Type. Old female. B.M. no. T.X.I. 196. Collected 

 by "Capt. Burton, H.M. Consul of Fernando Po," later 

 Sir Richard Burton. Received with the collection of 

 Mr. R. F. Tomes. 



This Cameroons Otomys, widely isolated as it is geographi- 

 cally from all other members of the genus, seems to be most 

 nearly allied to certain of the Central African species, 

 among which, by Dollman's synopsis, it comes closest to 

 0. tropicalis nubilus of the Mount Kenya region. It is, 

 however, conspicuously smaller than that animal, nor can I 

 find any other to which it could be assigned. 



I have named it in honour of its famous collector, 

 Sir Richard Burton, to whose ability and energies as a 

 naturalist too little credit has been generally given. 



XXII. — The Hedgehog of Palestine and Asia Minor. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



When writing his paper on the subspecies of Erinaceus 

 europceus * Barrett Hamilton referred five specimens in the 

 British Museum from Mount Lebanon to Erinaceus concolor, 

 Martin, described from Trebizond. The type of the latter 

 being wholly black it seemed abnormal, and on this account 

 Barrett Hamilton could not distinguish the Mt. Lebanon 

 specimens from it. 



Since that date, however, further knowledge and further 

 material bearing on the question of E. concolor has accrued. 

 Miller has shown the definite distinction of E. roumanicus 



* Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) v. p. 360 (1900). 



