. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. o bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. accompanying it gives its habitat as the Sinai desert, " Ad vias circa fontes ; The Wells of Moses (Ain Musa) near the west shore of the Gulf of Suez, may therefore be considered the type locality. Dr. Phillips obtained two adults near Mt. Sinai, at Wady Feiran and Um Shomer respectively, and a third on the eastern side of the Sinai peninsula, at Suweira, slightly to the north of Akaba. It therefore probably ranges over the greater part of the Sinai d
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. o bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. accompanying it gives its habitat as the Sinai desert, " Ad vias circa fontes ; The Wells of Moses (Ain Musa) near the west shore of the Gulf of Suez, may therefore be considered the type locality. Dr. Phillips obtained two adults near Mt. Sinai, at Wady Feiran and Um Shomer respectively, and a third on the eastern side of the Sinai peninsula, at Suweira, slightly to the north of Akaba. It therefore probably ranges over the greater part of the Sinai desert. Bonhote (Proc. Zool. soc. London, 1912, p. 226) has recorded a specimen from Tor in Sinai, collected by Capt. S. S. Flower. The peculiar inflation of the auditory meatus causing it to touch the angle of the squamosal process, and the posterior enlargement of the bullae, so that they extend behind the supraoccipital and notably constrict the exoccipitals, may prove to be characters of generic value, when the time comes for a revision of the group. The pelage is extremely soft and silky; the pale, sand-colored hairs of the upper surface of the body are minutely black-tipped. Gerbillus calurus Thomas. Bushy-tailed Gerbil. Gerbillus calurus Thomas, Ann. mag. nat. hist., 1892, ser. 6, 9, p. 76. One of the most interesting of Dr. Phillips's captures is a fine adult male of this rare gerbil. Hitherto but three specimens seem to haw been recorded, all of which are in the British Museum. The original specimen is an alcoholic without locality; the second, also an alcoholic, is from Sinai, and unfortunately in poor condition; the third is a skin with imperfect skull, from Wady Sikait, south of Gebel Sebara, eastern Egypt. Dr. Phillips's specimen (the fourth to be recorded) is from the Sinai region at Wady Sa'al. The type was for many years in the British Museum before it was made known by Thomas, and it was not till the publication of the two other records by Anderson in his Zoolog
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