322 ON THE MAMMALS OF CRETE. [ Noy. 14, 
The following measurements (in millimetres) of the three speci- 
mens pr eserved were taken in the flesh :-— 
Skull. 
aS 
Head 
fy Foeotic 
Sri adie Tail lind footae Wang ee eters 
length. breadth. 
Nome er ae ie ey). as 
No. 12(d) ...... Cae ce tet 15 
VF 
No. 16 (9, PEC NT wote Dalila Wels gen 19:5 ane Tees 
of subspecies.) | 
The threespecimens obtained were trapped in the same locality — 
in rocky ground close to cultivated land between Khania and 
Suda. It was not known to any of the natives questioned on the 
subject. This discovery of an Acomys in Crete is interesting, 
being an extension, in a somewhat unexpected direction, of the 
recorded range of the genus. 
14. Lepus EUROP2US CRETICUS Barr.-Ham. 
This Hare was described in 1903 by Major Barrett-Hamilton* 
but as no measurements accompanied the four skins received by 
him, the following dimensions of a single example (a ¢), taken 
in the flesh, may be of interest :— 
Head and body 514 mm., hind foot 123, ear 102. The basal 
length of the skull is 71 mm. 
Hares are found all over the island, even near the summit of 
Mount Ida, which attains a height of over 8000 feet, where 
Admiral Spratt mentions having disturbed a number out of 
their ‘‘ forms” in the open snow. The same author remarks that 
those seen on Mount Ida “seemed to be a smaller species than 
the Hare of the lowlands.” Unfortunately no specimens were 
obtained from this locality, so that this observation still awaits 
confirmation. 
Of late a close season has been instituted in the island, and the 
Hare is among the number of species so protected. It was 
recorded by Raulin = under the name of Z. timidus. 
15. ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS CNOSssIUS §, subsp. n. 
This Rabbit is paler and decidedly more uniformly grey in 
colour than the typical form; this lightness is partly caused 
by the paleness of the reddish area on the back of the neck, which 
more or less affects the greater part of the dorsal region, and 
further by the absence of a markedly dark ring between the 
smoky grey of the proximal portion of the hairs and the sub- 
terminal light band. 
In the one specimen preserved (a 2), which lived for some 
months in the Zoological Society’s Gardens, the hind paws are 
* Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. x1. Jan. 1903, p. 126. 
+ Op. cit. vol. 1. p. 13. 
t Op. cit. 
§ “Cnossius ” was employed by the early poets as equivalent to Cretan 
