Prof. E. LJJniibcrg on Eastern Ileihjehogs. iVll 



with the present specimens, aiul it is not easy to find out tlie 

 ilistin}i:uishiii{; cliaractcristics from the descriptions only. 



Thomas's miodun from Shensi is perhaps to l)e excluded, 

 hocause it h:is a smaller, especially shorter, skull. When 

 describing it, the author quoted compared it chiefly with 

 E. dealbafus, and as this belongs to another group (nowadays 

 even another genus) the characteristics of uiiodon used to 

 distinguish it from dealbatus, as, for instance, the small si/e 

 o\' p^, are shared also by the Mongolian Hedgehog, because it 

 belon(i;s to the same natural group. 



The name przewabkii was given by Satunin to a hedgehog 

 collected in "Nord-China?'' The description of the same 

 agrees very nearly with the present specimens as well with 

 regard to the exterior features generally as also with regard 

 to cranial dimensions {cf. below). 



The general appearance has a certain resemblance with 

 that of a European hedgehog, although a little paler, but (,n 

 a closer examination it is widely different by reason of its 

 very large ears, comparatively long tail, and absence of any 

 bare median space between the spines of the crown. The 

 spines are directed towards different sides, which partly may 

 he due to the fact tliat they are curved, the curvature being 

 most pronounced in their basal parts. The spit\es on the 

 crown, which are decidedly more slender than those on the 

 back, are also less curvel. They are brown at their base in 

 varying degree, then follows a white ring and again a dark 

 brown or blackish ring, which occupies the greater part 

 of the distal half. Outside this is a subapical white ring, 

 and finally a short brownish tip. The length of the spines 

 is about 21-23 mm. The hairs are not quite so coarse as 

 in a Common Hedgehog, and not at all so bristly as in 

 E. koreanus. The snout and the surroundings of the eyes 

 are brownish grey, the forehead paler, almost brownish 

 white. The long hairs on the sides of the neck above the 

 shoulders and along the flanks are white, the shorter hairs 

 somewhat greyish. The whole underside is dirty white, 

 more woolly in the young one. The fore feet have a colour 

 somewhat resembling ''otter-brown " (Rep. de Coul. 351-4), 

 the hind feet a little darker and more brownish. The ears 

 are fringed with hairs similar in colour to those on the fore 

 feet, but almost naked on the outside, inside with white hairs. 

 The vibrissse on the sides of the snout are rather well 

 developed and black. The total length of the larger dry 

 specimen is about 21 cm. The hind foot of the same (s. u.) 

 is 41 mm. and the dry ear about 24 mm. It is, however, of 

 course, very much shrunk, mIucIi is j)roved by the fact that 

 the ear of the somewhat smaller alcoholic specimen is from 



