192 ^ Sefior A. Cabrera on 



food, as is the case in certain specimens of Glis recorded 

 by Ghidini *. In El Pardo dormice feed chiefly on acorns. 



To sum up the foregoing conclusions : Eliomys is repre- 

 sented in the Peninsula by two different species — a northern 

 and central one, E. qaercinus, reaching on the south as far 

 as the Guadiana River, Central Portugal, and the province 

 of Murcia ; and a southern one, E. lusitanicus, inhabiting 

 Andalucia and the southern part of Portugal. Lisbon, Don 

 Benito, and Daimiel are the most northern localities in which 

 E. lusitanicus has been collected. 



Thomas's E. gymnesicus need not be commented on here, 

 as it is a Balearic form only, never found on the mainland. 



Glis. 



Glis gUs is recorded from N. W. Spain by Seoane f, from 

 Andalucia by Machado :j: and Martinez Keguera §, and from 

 Madrid by Cazurro ||. The last proves to be erroneous, 

 as the grey dormouse does not inhabit the province of 

 Madrid, the specimen in the Madrid Museum that Cazurro 

 alludes to being a young Eliomys quercinus with the grey 

 juvenile coat. Graells describes Glis as " more common 

 in the eastern and southern than in the central and northern 

 parts of the Peninsula"; he, however, bases this conclusion 

 not on his own experience, but on the statements of Machado 

 and Reguera ^. Now, when I think of Reguera's admitting 

 the existence of ass-deer hybrids, and of Machado's including 

 such a species as Myoxus frugivorus among the Andalucian 

 mammals, I cannot place too much confidence in the assertions 

 of these authors. Both from my own experience and from 

 information obtained from collectors and country people, I am 

 convinced that Glis has never been seen either in Andalucia 

 nor in Valencia ; the Valencian names (" rata del camp " 

 and " rata de plumall ") quoted for it by Graells really 

 belong to Eliomys quercinus. The genus seems to be also 

 unrepresented in Portugal, as Seabra does not include it in 

 his catalogue of mammals from that country **. 



* Bollett. Soc. Ticin. Science Nat. ii. 1905, p. 53. 



t V. Lopez Seoane, ' Fauna Mastol. de Galicia,' 1861-63, p. 265. 



X Machado y Nunez, ' Catal. Mamif. de Audalucia,' 1869, p. 27. 



§ L. Martinez y lleg-uera, ' Fauna de Sierra-Morena : Mamiferos del 

 t^rmino de Montoro,' 1881, p. 161. 



II Manuel Cazurro, " Fauna Matritense " (Actas Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 

 1894). 



H Graells, Mem. Ac. Madrid, 1897, p. 479. 

 ** Jorn. Scienc. Lisboa, (2) vi. 1900, p. 90. 



