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the body is very white, and quite different to what we are accus- 

 tomed to see in our British Hedgehog. In the length and detailed 

 coloration of the spines, and in the various cranial characteristics 

 which Dobson and de Winton have described as distingaishing 

 E. algirus from E. europceus, our Balearic specimens agree entirely 

 with the former. 



Dimensions of the type, an old male, the largest of the series, 

 measured in the flesh : — 



Head and body 250 mm., tail 40, hind foot 37, ear 33. 



Skull — greatest length from condyle to gnathion 53-8 mm. ; 

 basal length 51 ; zygomatic breadth 33 ; nasals, greatest (diagonal) 

 length 16-5 ; intei-orbital breadth 17 ; intertemporal breadth 14 ; 

 palate, length 32, breadth outside m.^ 22, inside m.^ 10-5. 



The corresponding greatest length of a rather younger skull of 

 E. algirus typicus is 59 mm. 



Type. Male, B.M. No. 0.7.1.36 ; original number 287; killed 

 10th April, 1900, at San Cristobal, Minorca. 



The specimen selected as the type was brought to us with half 

 a dozen others, and was considered by the natives as decidedly 

 larger than usual. No doubt the persecution these animals under- 

 go, owing to their edibility, tends to kill them off before they have 

 the chance of attaining a good old age. On the other hand, no 

 very young ones were met with, oar smallest skull (?) measuring 

 48*5 mm. in greatest length. 



The range of Erinaceus algirus is now shown to extend over 

 North Africa from Tripoli westwards to Marocco, and in Europe 

 from Andalucia to the eastern island of the Balearic archipelago. 

 In Spain its exact distribution still remains to be worked out, and, 

 especially, its geographical relationship to E. europceus, which, in 

 the subspecies E. a. hispanicus B. Ham., occurs as far south as 

 Seville. 



12. Ceociduea kijssula Herm. 

 a-c. San Cristobal, Minorca. 



The G-arden Shrew is said by Barcelo to be very rare in Majorca, 

 and this assertion is borne out by our catching none in that 

 island and only three in Minorca ; for when present it is easily 

 trapped, and at Cintra in Portugal I captured as many as I wished 

 of the same species. 



By such natives as were observant enough to know it at all, it 

 was called " Eata aranera," while the Castilian name for it is 

 " Musaraiia." 



We failed either to catch or hear of the Southern Pigmy Shrew, 

 Pachyura etrusca. It may also be safely asserted that neither the 

 Water-Shrew (Neomys fodiens) nor the Common Shrew (Sorex 

 araneus) occur in the islands. 



The Mole is also entirely absent. 



13. Eblis cattjs L. 



Majorca and Iviza (Barcelo). Does not occur hi Minorca. 



