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Show 1903.] ON THE MUSCLES OF THE UNGULATA. 261 living examples, four of which arrived at the Gardens in August. They turned out to be specimens of Acomys nesiotes, a new species described by Miss Bate * in June of this year from specimens brought by her from Cyprus and presented to the Natural History Museum, where Mr. Thomas very kindly showed them to me. Miss Bate obtained her specimens from the Kerynia Hills, not far from the village of Dikomo. She added : " I never met with or heard of it in other parts of the island, though probably it occurs at any rate over the whole of the Mesoro?a, or central plain, and the southern slopes of the Kerynia Hills." From information given me by Mr. Michell it is clear that the Cypriote Spiny Mouse has a range in Cyprus much wider than that attributed to it by Miss Bate, and probably extending to the whole of the island. The south-western portion of the island is hilly, the range separating it from the central plain running up to over 5000 feet. Some of Mr. Michell's specimens came from the village of Ayios Konstantiiios, at an elevation of over 4000 feet; others were from various regions in the vine-clad hills, and others again from the low coast-area near Limassol. The mice are very timid and seldom seen by the villagers. They live in deep holes, and are reported to do much damage to the caroub trees. They are not known in towns. It happened, curiously enough, that the four specimens in the Gardens and all those obtained by Mr. Michell were devoid of tails. This corroborates the remarks of Miss Bate on the brittle-ness of the vertebra? in these animals. The mice bred while in captivity, producing two at a birth. The young had normal tails, but lost them in a very short time. 6. On the Muscles of the Ungulata. By BERTRAM G. A. W I N D L E , SC.D., M.D., M.A., F.li.S., Professor of Anatomy in the University of Birmingham, and F. G. PARSONS, F.R.C.S., F.Z.S., F.L.S., Lecturer on Human and Comparative Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital, late Hunterian Professor in the Royal College of Surgeons, England. PART II.-MUSCLES OF THE HIND-LIMB AND TRUNK. [Received September 8, 1903..] (Text-figures 24-27.) The first part of this paper, which dealt with the muscles of the head, neck, and fore-limb, was read before the Society on December 17, 1901, and published in the 'Proceedings' in April 1902 (see P. Z. S. 1901, vol. ii. pp. 656-704), and we now wish to give an account of the muscles of the hind-limb and trunk, together with some general observations on the Order. * Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xi. p. 565 (1903). |