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hind foot, 36 ; ear, 25.* Adult female from Hatszeg, Hunyad, 

 Austria-Hungary : head and body, 190 ; tail, 225 ; hind foot, 38. 

 For cranial measurements see Table, p. 856. 



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

 Scotland : South Ronaldshay, Orkney Islands, 5 (Edinburgh). 

 England : Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, 1 ; Tring, Hertfordshire, 1 ; 

 London, 6 (including type of ater Millais) ; Lundy Island, Devonshire, 2. 

 France : Sark, Channel Islands, 1. 

 Switzerland : No exact locality, 1. 

 Austria-Hungary : Hatszeg, Hunyad, 2. 

 Portugal : San Miguel, Azores, 1. 



Nat., Paris, p. 192 (Egypt). 

 1814. Musculus frugivorus Rafinesque, Precis des D6couv. et Travaux 



Somiologiques, p. 13 (Sicily). 

 1825. Mus tectorum Savi, Nuovo Giorn. de' Letterati, Pisa, x, p. 74 (Pisa, 



Italy). 

 1827. Myoxus siculs. Lesson, Man. de Mammalogie, p. 274 (Substitute for 



Musculus frugivorus Rafinesque). 

 1841. Mus sylvestris Pictet, Mem. Soc. Phys. et d'Hist. Nat., Geneve, ix, 



p. 153 (Near Geneva, Switzerland). Alternative for leucogaster. 

 1841. Mus leucogaster Pictet, Mem. Soc. Phys. et d'Hist. Nat., Geneve, ix, 



p. 154 (Near Geneva, Switzerland). 

 1841. [ilfos] nemoralis de Selys-Longchamps, Atti della seconda Riunione 



degli Scienziati Italiani, Torino, 1840, p. 247 (Near Geneva, 



Switzerland). Accidental substitute for sylvestris Pictet. 

 1845. Mus picieti Schinz, Synops. Mamm., n, p. 142 (Substitute for leuco- 

 gaster Pictet). 

 1857. Mus alexandrinus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 316. 

 1882. [Mus rattus] intermedins Ninni, Atti del reale Inst. Veneto, 5th ser., 



vn, p. 574 (Venice, Italy). 

 1910. Mus (Epimys) rattus intermedins and ill. (E.) rattus alexandrinus 



Trouessart, Paune Mamm. d'Europe, pp. 143, 144. 



Type locality. — Alexandria, Egypt. 



Geographical distribution. — Mediterranean region ; everywhere 

 abundant and not tending to be replaced by Ejtimyx iiorvpr/iriisi. 

 * From Millais. 



