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Show 38 MR. OLDFIELD THOMAS ON THE [Feb. 5, the Marquis Doria's paper on Ligurian Bats l. And again, from Sardinia the Museum has since received examples of these two bats, taken together in the Grotto de Sardali. AVith regard to the identification of Bonaparte's species, I may express m y entire accord with the conclusion arrived at by Dobson, Trouessart, and Doria. As might be expected, the present forms an addition to the list of Balearic Mammals, the species not having been mentioned by Prof. Barcelo. Its nearest recorded locality is Marseilles ; the Museum possesses examples from Cagliari, Sardinia ; it occurs in Italy and Germany, and is said, though I venture to doubt the statement, to range eastwards to Japan and the Philippines. 10. MINIOPTERUS SCHREIBERSI Natt. Inca, Majorca. San Cristobal, Minorca. N e w to the Balearic list. Although not recorded by Barcelo, this species is evidently common. At Inca w e found two specimens of it in the Cueva de Sta. Magdalena, in company with Myotis capaccinii, and at San Cristobal quite a large number of specimens were brought us from the caves in the neighbourhood. W e failed to persuade captive specimens to eat anything, nor did w e have the opportunity of seeing this species on the wing. 11. ERINACEUS ALGIRUS VAGANS, subsp. n. a. Inca, Majorca. b-f. San Cristobal, Minorca. The " Erisso " is very common in both islands, and is eaten by the natives; we ourselves tried a hash of Hedgehog, and found it excellent. It is of remarkable interest to find that the Hedgehog of the Balearic Islands is not the European species at all, as Prof. Barcelo not unnaturally supposed, but is the North-African E. algirus, from which, however, it is subspecitically distinguishable by size and colour. The same species has been recorded by M r . de Wintou as occurring in Andalucia", but with some doubt owing to the exact locality of the specimen not being known. Now, however, that E. algirus has turued up in the Balearics, the Andalucian record may be accepted as certainly correct, for it is through that region that the species must have reached the islands. As a subspecies E. a. vagans may be distinguished from E. a. lypicus by the smaller size of its skull and by the nearly uniform whiteness of its hairy parts. In some specimens the face, feet, and inguinal regions are faintly browner than the rest of the body, but are still far lighter than is the case in the African representatives of the species. The general colour of the upper surface of 1 Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) iv. p. 459 (1887). 2 P. Z. S. 1897, p. 856. |