38 ME. OLDMBLD THOMAS ON O^HIi [Yeh. 5, 



the Marquis Doria's paper on Ligurian Bats \ And again, from 

 Sardinia the Museum has since received examples ot these two 

 bats taken together in the Grotto de Sardali. With regard to 

 the identification of Bonaparte's species, I may express my entire 

 accord with the conclusion arrived at by Dobson, Trouessart, and 



As might be expected, the present forms an addition to the list 

 of Balearic Mammals, the species not having been mentioned by 

 Prof. Barcelo. Its nearest recorded locality is Marseilles ; the 

 Museum possesses examples from Cagliari, Sardinia ; it occurs in 

 Italy and Germany, and is said, though I venture to doubt the 

 statement, to range eastwards to Japan and the Philippines. 



10. MiNIOPTEKUS SCHKEIBEESl Watt. 



Inca, Majorca. 



San Cristobal, Minorca. 



New to the Balearic list. 



Although not recorded by Barcelo, this species is evidently 

 common. At Inca we found two specimens of it in the Cueva de 

 Sta. Magdalena, in company with Myotis capaccinii, and at San 

 Cristobal quite a large number of specimens were brought us from 

 the caves in the neighbourhood. We failed to persuade captive 

 specimens to eat anything, nor did we have the opportunity of 

 seeing this species on the wing. 



11. Eeinaoeus algieus vagans, subsp. n. 



a. Inca, Majorca. 



b-f. San Cristobal, Minorca. 



The " Erisso " is very common in both islands, and is eaten by 

 the natives ; we ourselves tried a hash of Hedgehog, and found it 

 excellent. 



It is of remarkable interest to find that the Hedgehog of the 

 Balearic Islands is not the European species at all, as Prof. Barcelo 

 not unnaturally supposed, but is the North-African E. algirus, 

 from which, however, it is subspecifically distinguishable by size 

 and colour. The same species has been recorded by Mr. de Winton 

 as occurring in Andalucia ^, but with some doubt owing to the 

 exact locality of the specimen not being known. Now, however, 

 that E. algirus has turned up in the Balearics, the Andalucian 

 record may be accepted as certainly correct, for ^^t is through that 

 region that the species must have reached the islands. 



As a subspecies E. a. vagans may be distinguished from E. «. 

 iypicus by the smaller size of its skull and by the nearly uniform 

 whiteness of its hairy parts. In some specimens the face, feet, 

 and inguinal regions are faintly browner than the rest of the body, 

 but are still far lighter than is the case in the African representa- 

 tives of the species. The general colour of the upper surface of 



^ Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) iv. p. 459 (1887). 

 ^ P. Z. S. 1897, p. 856. 



