the Common Hedyehog. 363 



Skull. 



Breadth 

 Head and Hind Basal at 



body. Tail. foot. Eur. length, zygoma. 

 -7 , Cardiff, Wales, 26th May, 



^ 1899 {R. Drane) 263 20 43 22 63 36 



cC , Innerwick, Haddingtonshire, 



Scotland, 8th April, 1899 



{TV. Eagle Clarke). Type of 



subspecies. (Mammte 8.) 



The skull is the largest I 



have seen 218 17 42 28 57 34 



No. 93. 10. 30. 2. d , Ennis, 



Co. Clare, Ireland, 21st Sept., 



1893 {J. W. Scott) 252 30 40 



5 juv., Hardington, Gloucester- 

 shire {R. Hooper), loth Nov., 



1894 179 23 35 21 damaged. 



Distribution. The British Isles and probably parts of mediau 

 Western Europe. 



Since all the British skulls can be distinguislied from those 

 of continental hedgehogs, I have no alternative but to separate 

 the Western hedgehogs, 



(2) Erinaceus europceus tj/picus, Linnaaus, Sjst. Nat. 

 ed. X. p. 52 (1766). 



Type locality Upsala, Sweden. 



Distinguishing characteristics. In size and colour similar 

 to E. e. occidentalism but the skull may be distinguished by 

 the frontal processes of the premaxill^e, which, although 

 extending backward half the length of the nasals, end in a 

 sharply defined point. 



A specimen (no. 93. 3. 1. 7) from Aker Island, Roms Island, 

 Norway (62° N. lat), 28th May, 1890, has the dimensions of 

 the skull 55*5 x 36. A skull from Switzerland is also of this 

 form. 



Distribution. Scandinavia and central continental Europe. 

 Most German animals which I have seen are intermediate in 

 their characters, and their exact identification must await the 

 arrival of Eastern European specimens. 



(3) Erinaceus europceus hispanicuSj subsp. n. 



T(/pe No. 95. 3, 3. 2 (unsexed) of the British Museum 

 collection, from Seville, Spain (for particulars see below). 



Distinguishing characteristics. General size perhaps a little 

 smaller than that of E. e. typicus and feet and legs more 

 slender. Coloration markedly paler, being almost white in 

 the extreme form. The bristles in manv cases lack the black 



