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The Tomich collection is perhaps the largest and most complete 

 single collection known from the Nile Delta region. Even so, several 

 species that have occurred and presumably still occur in that region 

 were not taken by the collectors on whose work this paper is based. 

 For the sake of completeness, references to these have been extracted 

 from the literature. 



In addition there are four species which have been taken from the 

 Delta region within historic time but have since been extirpated. 

 They are: Wild sheep, Ammotragus lemia; dorcas gazelle, Gazella 

 dorcas; saberhorned oryx, Oryx algazel; and addax, Addax naso- 

 macidata. 



Capitalized color terms are from Ridgway, "Color Standards and 

 Color Nomenclature" (1912). All measurements are given in milli- 

 meters and all weights in grams. 



No comments have been made in regard to habitats or habitat pref- 

 erence, since Tomich hopes to publish an account of the natural 

 history of these animals and their role in epidemiology. 



Order INSECTIVORA 

 Family ERINACEIDAE 



HEMIECHINUS AEGYPTIUS (E. Geofifroy St.-Hilalre) 



Erinaceus aegyptius E. Geoffeoy St.-Hilaike, Catalogue des mammifferes du 

 Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, p. 69, 1803 (Egypt). 



Erinaceus libycus Hempeich and Ehrenberg, Symbolae physicae . . ., dec. 2, 

 footnote, folio k, 1832 (near Alexandria, Egypt). 



Specimen examineid. — One. Giza Province: Abu Rauwash, Cairo 

 area (MVZ). 



Description. — Upper parts, except head and shoulders, covered with 

 short (15 to 20 mm.) spines; base of spines (3 to 5 mm.) brownish, 

 then a buify band, a brown and a terminal white band of about equal 

 width ; hairs of entire head, ears, belly, fore and hind legs Warm Buff. 

 Tail short; ears large; eyes small ; fore feet broad and short; hind feet 

 relatively long and narrow. 



Measurements. — An adult male from Abu Rauwash, Cairo area, 

 measured : Total length 200 ; length of tail 20 ; length of hind foot 35 ; 

 condylobasal length 45.8; length of palate 24.2; width of rostrum 

 at lacrimal canal 10.4 ; length of nasals 17.0 ; least interorbital width 

 11.0; width across zygomatic arches 26.4. 



Remarhs. — No ear measurements are available for the one specimen 

 examined, but from the appearance of the dry skin the ears appear 

 as though they would, when laid forward in a fresh specimen, reach 

 to the end of the nose. 



