'j\U CI 1911 



THE ZOOLOGIST 



No . 835. — January . 1911. 



THE JERSEY VOLE {EVOTOMYS C^SARIUS, 



Miller). 



By Gordon Dalgliesh. 



(Plate I.) 



The investigations of modern zoologists with regard to our 

 outlying islands' fauna have met within recent years with singu- 

 larly happy results, the mice and voles receiving a very large 

 share of attention. The painstaking and careful work of such 

 naturalists as Barrett-Hamilton, De Winton, Millais, and Bunt- 

 ing must be of the greatest value and help to future field natura- 

 lists. To Major Barrett-Hamilton credit is due for having been 

 the first to discover the Jersey Vole. It was, however, left for an 

 American mammalogist, Mr. G. S. Miller, to first name and 

 describe its peculiarities. In his paper, *' Notes on the Mam- 

 mals of the Channel Islands" (Zool. 1908, p. 462), Mr. R. H. 

 Bunting first drew attention, in the pages of ' The Zoologist,' to 

 this hitherto new and little-known rodent. 



That the Jersey Vole should have escaped notice for so long 

 is not surprising when one considers for how long the Orkney 

 Vole and the Yellow-necked Mouse remained unrecognized. It 

 should be remembered, too, that previous to the researches of 

 the above-named naturalists our mammalian fauna had but 

 lightly been critically examined. When Mr. Bunting returned 

 from his collecting trip in the Channel Islands he kindly pre- 

 sented me with the skin and some skulls of the Jersey Vole. 

 Zool. 4th ser. vol. XV., January. 1911. , B 



