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Show 3 2 2 ON THE MAMMALS OF CRETE. [N o v . 1 4 , The following measurements (in millimetres) of the three specimens preserved were taken in the flesh ;-- Skull. Head ™ Extreme Zygomatic and body TaiL Hnld foot Ear' length. breadth. No. 3 ( 5 ) ....... 93' ... 18-5 19 30 15 No. 12 ( 6 ) ....... 112 ... 19 18 ... 15 No 16 ( ? , type 1 94 n 3 lg 19.5 _ 15.5 oi subspecies.) J The three specimens obtained were trapped in the same locality in rocky ground close to cultivated land between Khania and Suda. It was not known to any of the natives questioned on the subject. This discovery of an Acomys in Crete is interesting, being an extension, in a somewhat unexpected direction, of the recorded range of the genus. 14. L epus europ.-eus creticus Barr.-Ham. This Hare was described in 1903 by Major Barrett-Hamilton* but as no measurements accompanied the four skins received by him, the following dimensions of a single example (a 8 ), taken in the flesh, may be of interest:- Head and body 514 mm., hind foot 123, ear 102. The basal length of the skull is 71 mm. Hares are found all over the island, even near the summit of Mount Ida, which attains a height of over 8000 feet, where Admiral Spratt mentions t having disturbed a numbex• out of their " forms " in the open snow. The same author remarks that those seen on Mount Ida " seemed to be a smaller species than the Hare of the lowlands." Unfortunately no specimens were obtained from this locality, so that this observation still awaits confirmation. Of late a close season has been instituted in the island, and the Hare is among the number of species so protected. It was recorded by Raulin J under the name of L. timidus. 15. O ry c to la g u s cu n icu lu s cnossius §, subsp. 11. This Rabbit is paler and decidedly more uniformly grey in colour than the typical form ; this lightness is partly caused by the paleness of the reddish area on the back of the neck, which more or less affects the greater part of the dorsal region, and further by the absence of a markedly dark ring between the smoky grey of the proximal portion of the hairs and the sub-terminal light band. In the one specimen preserved (a 5 ), which lived for some months in the Zoological Society's Gardens, the hind paws are * Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. xi. Jan. 1903, p. 126. t Op. cit. vol. i. p. 13. J Op. cit. § " Cnossius " was employed by the early poets as equivalent to Cretan |