MUSCARDINUS 



587 



Measurements. — Adult male from Thornhaugh, Northampton- 

 shire, England:* head and body, 86; tail, 57; hind foot, 16. 

 Adult female from Colchester, Essex : head and body, 77 ; 

 tail, 55; hind foot, 16; ear from meatus, 11. Adult male and 

 female from Guines, Pas-de-Calais, France : head and body, 

 72 and 77 ; tail, 71 and 74; hind foot, 16-2 and 16-4. Adult 

 male and female from Lucinges, Haute-Savoie, France : head 

 and body, 78 and 76 ; tail, 61 and 66 ; hind foot, 15 and 15 ; 

 ear from meatus, 11 and 10. Adult male from Lausanne, Vaud, 

 Switzerland: head and body, 75; tail, 77; hind foot, 16 ■ 5. 

 Adult female from Padola, Cadore, Italy : head and body, 80 ; 

 tail, 70; hind foot, 16; ear from meatus, 12. Adult female 

 from Arsoli, Rome, Italy : head and body, 75 ; tail, 65 ; hind 

 foot, 15 • 6. For cranial measurements see Table, p. 588. 



Specimens examined. — Ninety, from the following localities : — 



England : Thornhaugh, Northamptonshire, 1 ; Halton, Buckingham- 

 shire, 1 ; Chalfont, Buckingham, 1 ; Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, 2 ; 

 Colchester, Essex, 8; London (purchased alive in), 2; Norwood, Headley, 

 Surrey, 1 ; Ratham, Sussex, 1 ; Sussex, no exact locality, 1 ; Eversley, 

 Hampshire, 2 ; Honiton, Devonshire, 1 ; no exact locality, 1. 



Erance : Guines, Pas-de-Calais, 2 ; Manonville, Meurthe-et-Moselle, 4 ; 

 Cranves-Sales, Haute-Savoie, 2 ; Lucinges, Haute-Savoie, 2 ; Montauban, 

 Haute-Savoie, 1 ; Scientriers, Haute-Savoie, 1 (Mottaz) ; no exact locality, 1. 



Germany : Oberwald, near Gross, Silesia, 1 ; Silesia, no exact locality, 

 1; Wolfshau, Riesengebirge, Silesia, 1 (U.S.N.M.); Nuremberg, Bavaria, 

 2 (U.S.N.M.). 



Austria-Hungary : Csall6koz-Somorja, Pressburg, Hungary, 3 ; ZubereiS, 

 Hungary, 1 ; Tirol, 2 (U.S.N.M.) ; Brass6, 1 ; Hatszeg, Hunyad, 5. 



Switzerland : Geneva, 4 (Genoa and Mottaz) ; Lausanne, Vaud, 2 

 (U.S.N.M.); Neuchatel, 3 (U.S.N.M.); St. GaUen, 2; Ziiberwangen, 

 St. Gallen, 1 (U.S.N.M.); Vulpera-Tarasp, Grisons, 5 (Rothschild); 

 Ticino, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Lugano, Ticino, 1 (U.S.N.M.). 



Italy : Padola, Cadore, 2 (Turin) ; Porlezza, Como, 3 ; Gozzano, 

 Novara, 1 (Genoa) ; Moncalieri, Turin, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Timone, Borzoli, 

 Genoa, 1 (Genoa) ; N.S. della Vittoria, Appennino Ligure, 9 (Genoa) ; 

 Vaccarezza, 2 (Genoa) ; Siena, 4 ; Rome, 1. 



Remarks.- — Skins from different parts of the range of Mus- 

 cardinus avellanarius show practically no individual variation. 

 Adults are darker and more richly coloured than the young, 

 though the difference is slight. British specimens are not 

 distinguishable from those taken in Switzerland and Italy .^ 



i. Halton, Buckingham- Hon. N. C. Roths- 11. 1. 3. 490. 



shire, England. child (p). 



?. Chalfont, Buckingham- Hon. N. C. Roths- 11. 1. 3. 401. 



shire. child (p). 



<5. Thornhaugh, Northamp- Rev. H. H. Slater 99. 11. 27. 6. 



tonshire. (c & p). 



(Type of M. a. anglicus Barrett-Hamilton.) 



i, 9 al. Bury St. Edmunds, Suf- Dr. Gunther (c & p). 90. 5. 27. 1. 

 folk. 



* Type of anglicus Barrett-Hamilton. 



t The type of anglicus is an adult in full, rich winter pelage. 



