ALLEN: MAMMALS OF THE PHILLIPS PALESTINE EXPEDITION. 9 
APODEMUS SYLVATICUS TAURICUS (Barrett-Hamilton). 
Taurus Wood Mouse. 
Mus sylvaticus tauricus Barrett-Hamilton, Proc. Zool. soc. London, 1900, p. 
412. 
Three specimens from Shiba, Rasheya, and Ain Hersha respectively, 
localities near the southwest base of Mt. Hermon, belong to the syl- 
yaticus group, and here represent nearly the southern limit of its range 
in Palestine. ‘Two of these, though nearly grown, are in the immature 
slaty gray pelage, and the third is an adult male. Barrett-Hamilton’s 
name tauricus probably applies to these specimens, though he gives 
no description beyond the length and breadth of the type skull (23 X 
12mm.). His type is an alcoholic in the British Museum from Zebil 
in the Bulgar Dagh, southern Asia Minor, and thus not very far from 
Palestine. The adult skin brought back by Dr. Phillips’s expedition 
s a very pale buffy animal uniformly ‘lined’ above with black hairs 
\nd quite without the russet tints of true sylvaticus. Judging from 
leseriptions alone it is nearly indistinguishable from A. s. dichrurus 
if the European Mediterranean region and in its measurements it 
hows no appreciable differences. The skull of the adult male is 24.6 
am. in greatest length as against 23 mm. given for the type of tauricus, 
ut the latter measurement may well be within the limits of varia- 
ality for an immature individual. 
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APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS (Melchior). 
Yellow-collared Mouse. 
us flavicollis Melchior, Den Danske Staats og Norges pattedyr, 1834, p. 99. 
Two specimens, one adult, the other immature, from Ain Hersha 
lar the base of Mt. Hermon extend the recorded range of this species 
1 into Palestine and probably indicate nearly the southeastern 
hit of its distribution. Through the kindness of Mr. Gerrit S. 
iller, Jr., I have been able to compare these with a series of European 
fvicollis, including topotypes from Denmark, in the U. S. N. M. 
e adult, in russet pelage, is a mere shade paler than any of the 
