406 



CAENIVORA 



head and body, 173 ; tail, 62 ; hind foot, 34. For cranial 

 measurements see Table, p. 410. 



Specimens examined. — Forty-six, from the following localities : — 



Fbance. — Valesoure, Var, 2 ; Agay, Var, 1. 



Switzerland : Somvico, Ticino, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Bogno, Ticino, 1 

 (U.S.N.M.) ; Buggiolo, Ticino, 1 (U.S.N.M.); San Lucio, Ticino, 1; 

 Poschiavo, Grisons, 4 (U.S.N.M. and Mottaz, including type of major). 

 These Swiss specimens are intermediate between boccamela and nivalis, 

 though nearer the former. 



Italy: Padola, Cadore, 1 (Turin), not typical; Turin, 1 ; near Genoa, 1; 

 near Verona, 3 ; near Florence, 2 (U.S.B.M.) ; near Borne, 2. 



Sicily ; Balestrate, 2 ; Marsala, 3 ; Palermo, 5 (B. M. and U.S.N.M.). 



Sardinia : No exact locality, 4 ; Cagliari, 3. 



Malta ; No exact locality, 3 ; Ghallis, 4 ; Bingemma Fort, 1. 



Boumania ; Malcoci, Dobrudscha, 1 (U.S.N.M.). 



Remarks. — Although showing a perplexing amount of indi- 

 vidual variation'"' the weasel of the central Mediterranean region 

 must be regarded as distinct from that of central and northern 

 Europe. A small percentage of southern specimens cannot be 

 identified with certainty ; but typical fully adult males of 

 boccamela are strikingly different from the animal occurring 

 north of the Alps. 



* Studied in much detail by Cavazza, Bicerche sui "Putorius nivalis" 

 e sui " Putorius ermineus" d' Italia (Bologna, Zanichelli), 1908, Studien 

 iiber die in Italien vorkommenden Wieselarten der Untergattung Arctogale 

 (Zool. Anzeiger xxxiv, pp. 582-603), 1909, Sulle Donnole e sulT Ermellino 

 in Italia (Boll. Soc. Zool. Ital. xviii), 1909, and Contributo alia conoscenza 

 della vita e delle abitudini della Donnola, Putorius nivalis, Linn. (ibid, 

 xix, pp. 65-82), 1910. 



