1877. | THE MAMMALS OF ASIA MINOR. 281 
This Hamster, which is rare in collections, was discovered in the 
Caucasus by Ménétriés. It has since been found in Persia by De 
Filippi, and in Bulgaria by Mr. T. E. Buckley, as recorded by Prof. 
Newton, who gives a very good figure of the animal !. 
35. CRICETUS ACCEDULA (Pall.). 
Examples of this species were sent home by Messrs. Dickson and 
Ross from Erzeroom, with the observation that the species is there 
“very common. The eyes are large and black ; cheek-pouches 
spacious, extending from the angles of the mouth to the back 
of the head, a little beyond the ear. It is one of our domestic 
mice. In winter it is sometimes found on the snow; its fur is 
then silky and glossy”’*. Apparently this is the Cara-guz (“ black- 
eyes”’), which Mr. Curzon describes as a grey animal, the size and 
shape of a young Guineapig. 
36. *Spatax Typuuus, Pall. Kior Sytchan (blind rat). 
Common in many places, as has been recorded by Ainsworth and 
by Dickson and Ross. 
[? ALacTaga pEcUMANA (Licht.). 
A Jerboa, mentioned by both Herr Kotschy and Mr. Curzon, but 
not met with by Danford, may probably prove to belong to this 
species. | 
37. *Hysrrix crisratus, Linn. Kipri. 
Common in the Taurus, at various elevations, from the plain to 
5000 feet. Danford trapped one among the rocks near Zebil, in the 
Bulgar Dagh, and frequently observed traces of them near Smyrua, 
and in the island of Rhodes. 
38. *LEPUS SYRIACUS, Hempr. & Ehrenb. Tauochan. 
Common everywhere on the coast districts, but not met with by 
Danford in the barren interior. It ranges in the Taurus from the sea- 
level to about 5000 feet. Two specimens shot in the latter district 
agree well with the original description in the ‘Symbole Physice.’ 
The underwvol of the flanks is exactly as there described; but 
that of the back is pure white, and the fur round the rump is almost 
pure grey, the hairs being dusky, with white tips, but with no rufous 
band. These differences appear to us to be probably owing to differ- 
ence of climate, the specimens having been obtained in winter. Ac- 
cording to Canon Tristram, this is the only Hare found in the greater 
part of Palestine, except in the south and south-east, where it is 
replaced by L. sinaiticus, H. & E., and L. egyptiacus, Geoftr. 
? P.Z. 8. 1870, p. 331, pl. xxvi. 
? P. Z. 8. 1839, p. 122. 
