836 SobENiiA 



body, 112; tail, 120; hind foot, 24. For cranial measurements 

 see Table, p. 835. 



Specimens examined. — Twenty-two, from the following localities in 

 England : Riding, Mill-on-Tyne, Northumberland, 1 ; Graftonbury, Here- 

 fordshire, 13 ; Ledbury, Hereford, 1 ; Bishopstone, Hereford, 3 ; Hereford, 

 no exact locality, 1 ; Swithland, Leicestershire, 1 ; Oundle, Northampton- 

 shire, 1 ; Woolpit, Suffolk, 1 ; Balcombe, Sussex, 1. 



Bemarhs. — The British race of Apodemus flavicollis, though 

 not a well marked form, seems worthy of recognition on account 

 of the duller colour of the underparts and the more diffuse 

 nature of the pectoral spot. 



rf. Biding Mill - on - Tyne, Rev. H. H. Slater 11. 1. 3. 413. 



Northumberland, (c & p). 

 England. 



S. Graftonbury, Hereford- W. E. de Winton 0. 3. 12. 1. 



shire. (c & p). {Type of subspecies.) 



4 6, 6 ?, Graftonbury, Hereford- W. E. de Winton (p). 8. 10. 11. 1-12. 

 2 juv. shire. 



<5, ?. Bishopstone, Hereford- H. N. Ridley (p). 85. 12. 29. 1-2. 

 shire. ' 



6. Bishopstone, Hereford- Rev. S. O. Ridley 81. 1. 1. 4. 



shire. (c & p). 



<J. Ledbury, Herefordshire. Col. J. W. Yerbury 11. 1. 3. 411. 



(c & p). 



i. Swithland, Leicestershire. P. A. Butler (c & p). 11.1.3.410. 



9. Oundle, Northampton- LordLilford (c &p). 11.1.1.165. 



shire. 



<?. Woolpit, Suffolk. W.D. Parker (c&p). 11.1.3.412. 



APODEMUS AGRARIUS Pallas. 



1778. Mus agrarius Pallas, Nov. Sp. Quadr. Glir. Ord., p. 95 (Berlin, 



Germany). 

 1801. M[us\ agr[arius] albirostris Bechstein, Gemeinn. Naturgesch. 



Deutschlands, I, 2d ed., p. 975 (Thuringen, Germany). 

 1801. M[us] agr[arius] maculatus Bechstein, Gemeinn. Naturgesch. 



Deutschlands, I, 2d ed., p. 975 (Thuringen, Germany). 

 1816. Mus rubens Oken, Lehrb. d. Naturgesch., in, pt. n, p. 898 (Northern 



Germany). 

 1857. Mus agrarius Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 324. 

 1908. A[podemus] agrarius Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1908, p. 7, 



June, 1908. 

 1910. Mus (Apodemus) agrarius Trouessart, Paune Mamm. d'Europe, 



p. 155. 



Type locality. — Berlin, Germany. 



Geographical distribution. — Eastern and central Europe, west 

 along the Baltic coast to Denmark. 



Diagnosis. — Size and external appearance about as in 

 Apodemus sylvaticus, but colour of upper parts more reddish, and 

 back with a narrow, sharply defined, black median stripe ; skull 

 with interorbital region conspicuously beaded, even in half -grown 

 individuals; molars of about the same size as in A. xylvit fiats, 



