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female from Oundle, Northampton, England : head and body, 

 249 and 257 ; tail, 24 and 31 ; hind foot, 40 and 40. Adult 

 male and female from Maredsous, Namur, Belgium : head and 

 body, 270 and 251 ; tail, 39 and 33 ; hind foot, 44 and 44. 

 Adult male from Bouconne, Gers,. France : head and body, 220 ; 

 tail, 20 ; hind foot, 41. Adult male and female from St. Gallen, 

 Switzerland : head and body, 279 and 297 ; tail, 41 and 43 ; hind 

 foot, 44 and 47. For cranial measurements see Table, p. 124. 



Specimens examined. — Seventy-three, from the following localities : — 



Scotland : Dunphail, Elgin, 2 ; Gordonstown, Elgin, 2 ; Innerwiok, 

 Haddingtonshire, 1 ; Glendoo, Inverness, 1 (Wilson) ; Lanarkshire, 1. 



England: Kelnsea, Spurn, Yorkshire, 1; Leeds, Yorkshire, 1 (U.S.N.M.); 

 Somersetshire, 4; Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 3; Oundle, Northampton, 2; 

 Graftonbury, Herefordshire, 1 ; Saffron Walden, Essex, 2 ; Banstead, 

 Surrey, 1 ; Elstead, near Godalming, Surrey, 1 ; Oekley, Surrey, 1 ; 

 Wandsworth Common, Surrey, 1 ; Hampshire, 1 (U.S.N.M.). 



Wales : Cardiff, 2. 



Ireland : Castle Hamilton, 1 ; Nenagh, Tipperary, 2 ; Ennis, Co. 

 Clare, 2 ; Glenmore, Co. Donegal, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Kilmanook, Wexford, 2. 



Norway : Asker, near Christiania, 1. 



Sweden : Upsala, 5 (U.S.N.M.) ; Upland, 1. 



Denmark: Copenhagen, 5 (Andersen). 



Holland : No exact locality, 1. 



Belgium : Maredsous, Namur, 2. 



Prance : Eoret de Bouconne, Gers, 1 ; Cranves-Sales, Haute-Savoie, 1. 



Germany: Brunswick, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Heidelberg, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Strass, 

 near Burgheim, Bavaria, 3 ; Ingelheim, Bheinhessen, 1. 



Switzerland : Geneva, 2 (Mottaz) ; St. Gallen, 7 (B.M. and U.S.N.M.) ; 

 Uzwil, St. Gallen, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Heresau, St. Gallen, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Wolf- 

 halden, Appenzell, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Thurgau, 2. 



Remarks. — The typical race of Erinaceus europseus is dis- 

 tinguishable from the forms occurring in the Mediterranean 

 region by its combination of large size with dark colour. It is 

 more readily confused with the dark E. roumanicus, whose range 

 adjoins it on the east, and from which it cannot be distinguished 

 with certainty except by comparison of the skull and teeth. The 

 cranial character supposed to distinguish British specimens from 

 the Continental form appears to be too inconstant to warrant the 

 recognition of an insular race.* 



<5, 9. Gordonstown, Elginshire, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant 11. 1. 3. 379- 



Scotland. (c & p). 380. 



<5. Innerwick, Haddington- W. Eagle Clarke (c & 0. 3. 13. 1. 



shire. p). 



(Type of E. e. occidentalis B.-Ham.) 



9. Stockbriggs, Lanarkshire. E. R. Alston (c & p). 79. 9. 25. 76. 



i, 9. Oundle, Northampton, Hon. N. C. Roths- 11. 1. 3. 381- 



England. child (c & p). 382. 



S. Graftonbury, Hereford- W. E. de Winton (c 11. 1. 3. 383. 



shire. & p). 



* For discussion of this character see Lonnberg, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., 7th ser., v, pp. 542-544, June, 1900, and Barrett-Hamilton, I.e., 

 pp. 245-246, August, 1900. The question cannot yet be regarded as 

 decided, since no adequate series of skulls has yet been brought together. 



