ALLEN: MAMMALS OF THE PHILLIPS PALESTINE EXPEDITION. 1] 
Apodemus mystacinus euxinus, subsp. nov. 
Black Sea Wood Mouse. 
Type— Skin and skull 14,887 M. C. Z., from Scalita (near Trebi- 
ond), Asia Minor; male, collected November 25, 1905, by A. Robert, 
ltitude 1,000 meters. 
General Characters.— Similar to typical mystacinus but much darker, 
he back blacker, the buffy tints of face and sides replaced by grayish. 
Description. The type specimen is subadult, and in comparison 
‘ith specimens of similar age from Palestine, is much darker through- 
ut. The entire dorsal surfaces are grayish, heavily washed with 
lack which predominates in the middle of the back. The sides of 
he head and body are paler gray very faintly washed with “ pinkish- 
uff”? but in much less degree than in the typical race so that the 
eneral appearance is dark gray. Along the sides of the body a faint 
and of “pinkish buff’ delimits the color of the dorsal surface from the 
thite of the belly. The slaty bases of the hairs of the ventral surface 
how through sufficiently to darken the entire underparts except on 
ye forearms, which are pure white below. Feet and hands white, 
okles slaty, with a dusky prolongation reaching the caleaneum 
ehind, though the tarsal joint is white on its upper surface. Tail 
sarply bicolor, blackish above, white below. 
Measurements.— Head and body 94 mm., tail 109, hind foot 24, 
r 18. The skull shows no appreciable differences from that of 
pical mystacinus; condylobasal length 26, palatal length 14, zygo- 
atic width 14, upper cheek teeth (alveoli) 4.5. 
Remarks:— Mr. Thomas has already described several new forms 
(mammals from the forest belt along the northern coast of Asia 
inor on the Black Sea. Here, he says, “there is a strip of forest, 
Sne 50 miles wide, sloping northwards to the Black Sea from an 
aitude of 1500 to 2000 metres at its southern edge. The forest then 
uptly disappears and an open steppe country commences, inhabited 
Hamsters and Spermophiles, and continuous with the more desert 
intries further south. Compared with this more open and desert 
Cintry the coast-forest has a very different fauna, of a distinctly 
vhern character. * * * Mr. Robert’s work was done at two localities 
ithe heart of the forest-strip — Sumela *** and Scalita ** *a 
Wage in the same valley as Sumela but about 3000 m. [ = 300 m.?] 
er,” and some 30 or more miles south of Trebizond (Ann. mag. nat. 
ii., 1906, ser. 7, 17, p. 415). 
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