418 Mr. G. S. Miller on 



Museum) from the following localities in Germany : — Baliren- 

 berg, Harz Mts., 2 ; Mauseklippe, Bode Valley, Harz Mts., 2 ; 

 Eulengrund, Silesia, 3 ; Wolfsliau, Silesia, 2 (the last two 

 localities in the Kiesengebirge). 



Remarks. — In external measurements tlie Alpine shrew of 

 the Harz Mts. and Rieseiigebirge agrees with the Swiss 

 animal ; but the differences in lengtii of skull and of tooth- 

 rows seem enough to warrant the recognition of the two 

 forms as distinct. 



Crocidura canece, sp. n. 



Type. — Adult male (in alcohol). B.M. no. 84. 3. U. 2. 

 Crete (no exact locality). 



Diagnosis. — Size and general appearance as in the smaller 

 forms of Crocidura russala, and skull with similarly deep 

 cranium ; but second upper premolar as large as tliird, and 

 entire anterior portion of upper tooth-row unusually long 

 relatively to cheek-teeth. 



Measurements. — Type. Head and body Go mm. ; tail 42 ; 

 hind foot 11'8; condylo-basal length of skull 16'4; upper 

 tooth-row 8-2. 



Specimens examined. — Two, both from tlie island of Crete. 



Sciurus vulgaris segurce, subsp. n. 



Tyj^e. Adult female (skin and skull). B.M. no. 8. 9. 24. 3. 

 Collected at Molinicos, Sierra de Segura, Jaen, Spain, Octo- 

 ber 2, 1907, by M. de la Escalera. 



Characters. — Similar to Sciurus vulgaris infuscatus (Cab- 

 rera) of Central Spain, but back less blackish, its undeifur 

 light grey, tail less red and with white area on under surface 

 less well developed (essentially absent in three among eleven 

 skins), and cheeks light grey, not noticeably contrasted with 

 white of throat. 



Colour. — Summer pelage : upperparts a fine inconspicuous 

 grizzle of wood-brown and blackish, the general effect re- 

 sembling the mars-brown of Ridgway, blackening on flanks, 

 across posterior half of back, and on postero-external side of 

 thighs (in some specimens the light element is more nearly 

 russet and the black is essentially absent) ; ears and crown 

 like back, but face with a rusty wash, and muzzle and cheeks 

 to behind base of ears light clear ecru-drab, so pale as to form 

 no marked contrast with white of throat; underfur of bead, 

 back, sides, and limbs pale ecru-drab like that of cheeks, 

 appearing conspicuously at surface in specimens with abraded 

 pelage ; feet a dull ferruginous, this colour extending up 



