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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
INSECTIVORA. 
ERINACEID^. 
ERINACEUS. 
Erinaceus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. x. 1758, vol. i. p. 52. 
BenfAMon: i. c. i pm. m. | = 36. 
The first pair of upper incisors are very much larger than the others, tusk-like, and 
widely separated from one another; the canines scarcely differ from the teeth on either 
side of them and are in most cases double-rooted ; the second upper premolar is 
sometimes very small and deciduous; the third upper and first lower premolars are 
distinctly longer than the teeth on either side of them; the inner lower incisors 
are large and projecting. Tail very short, somewhat vestigial. 
Distributed over the temperate portion of the Paleearctic Region, the whole of the 
Eithiopian Region, and the western portion of the Oriental Region as far as the 
peninsula of India proper. 
Erinaceus auritus, Gmelin. (Plate XXI.) 
Erinaceus auritus, S. G. Gmelin, Nov. Comment. Petrop. xiv. 1770, p. 519, tab. xvi.; Pallas, ibid, 
p. 573, tab. xxi. fig. 4 ; Geoffroy St.-Hilaire & Audoniu, Descr. de I’Egypte, Hist. Nat. ii. 
1829, p. 737, pi. 5. fig. 3; Audouin, ibid. pp. 745, 746, Suppl. pi. 1. fig. 2 (skull and teeth) ; 
Fitzing. (Hemiechinus) SB. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Ivi. i. 1867, p. 859; Dobson, Monogr. 
Insectiv. p. 16; Anderson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 420. 
Erinaceus libycus, Hempr. & Ehr. Symb. Phys. decas ii. 1832 ; Fitzing. (Hemiechinus) SB. Akad. 
Wissensch. Wien, Ivi. i. 1867, p. 867 ; Dobson, Monogr. Insectiv. p. 16 (uec syu.). 
Erinaceus platyotis, Sundev. Sv. Vet.-Ak. Handl. Stockholm, (1841) 1812, p. 232; fitzing. 
{Hemiechinus) op. cit. p. 863. 
Erinaceus cegyptius, E. Geoffroy, Cat. Paris Museum, nomen nudum; Riippell, IMus. Senck. 
iii. 1845, p. 159; Fitzing. {Hemiechinus) op. cit. p. 868. 
Erinaceus frontalis, Dobson (nec E. frontalis, A. Smith), Monogr. Insectiv. 1882, p. 18. 
Erinaceus brachydactylus, Tristram (nec E. brachydactylus, Wagner), Survey of Western Palestine, 
1884, p. 25; Hart, Fauna and Flora of Sinai, Petra, &c. 1891, p. 238. 
2 and 2 9 . Margin of desert near Cairo. 
1 $ , Abu Roash, N.W. of Gizeh. 
1 $ imm. Suez. Mr. Theodor Meyer (German Consul). 
2 ? . Desert near Alexandria. 
