€ MR. OLDFIELD THOMAS ON [Jan. 14, 



Notes on Shantung. 



"I arrived in Chefoo on March 12th, 1907, and was obliged 

 to stay there until the 26tli, when I moved into the country eight 

 miles to the south, to remain until April 10th. 



" The Shantung Peninsula consists of a complicated series of 

 mountains isolated from other ranges by the broad plain of the 

 Hoang-ho. 



" In the region of Chefoo plains and hills alternate, the former 

 being broad, treeless, and though dry are under cultivation for 

 wheat and millet ; the latter rise to a height of 1000 feet or more, 

 are steep, rocky, and barren. In general the only trees that occur 

 are diminutive pines, no taller than a man, which are allowed to 

 grow in some parts of the hills ; but occasionally in some favoured 

 or sacred spot, a cemetery, or temple land, one finds pines or oaks 

 of larger size. It was svich a place that I found eight miles south 

 of Chefoo. Here the steep and rocky hills bore a sparse wood of 

 oak, which flovirished under the protection of a Buddhist Temple. 



"On Api-il 13th I began work at Ai-san, a mountain about 

 30 miles west of Chefoo ; here I remained till May 1st. Ai-san 

 is an isolated granite crag, 3200 ft. high. Its foothills, in which 

 I took up quartei's at an altitude of 1200 ft., are of granite and 

 dry granitic sand, clothed in spots with the usual diminutive 

 pines, and cut by precijDitous canyons through which numerous 

 streamlets flow from the mountain. Were it not for this 

 frequency of water the hills would I think be untillable even to 

 the Chinese, but the valleys, canyon bottoms, and sometimes the 

 hillsides are cultivated up to 1200 ft."— if. P. ^. 



1. Erinaceus dealbatus Swinh. 

 c?. 1461. $. 1447. Chefoo. 

 Originally described from Peking. 



" Purchased alive from peasants who had brought them into 

 Chefoo. Said to be not uncommon, but I failed to find them 

 myself. Seems to be strictly nocturnal." — M. P. A. 



2. Mus CONFUCIANUS SACER, subsp. n. 



c? . 1385, 1387, 1388, 1393, 1394, 1397, 1398, 1399, 1401, 1402, 

 1403, 1405, 1406. $ . 1386, 1389, 1390, 1391, 1395, 1396, 1400, 

 1407, 1408, 1409, 1410, 1411, 1412. Near Chefoo. 300'. 



<S . 1424, 1430, 1434, 1440. $ . 1423, 1431, 1432, 1433, 1443, 

 1445. Ai-san, 30 miles W. of Chefoo. 1200'. 



A female in spirit (No. 1404), with 2—2 = 8 mammte. 



A buffy-grey subspecies of M. confucianus; tail long-haired, 

 white-tipped. 



Size about as in true confucianus. Fur soft, not spinous in 

 specimens killed up to 25th April, and probably never so, as the 

 members of this group are not known to change seasonally in 

 this respect, as is the case in Apodenms speciosus. General colour 

 above greyish-bufiy or clay-colour, darkened by longer black hairs 



