. Catalogue of the mammals of Western Europe (Europe exclusive of Russia) in the collection of the British museum. Mammals. 538 RODENTIA backward so that its length is slightly more than double its greatest width. Mammte : p 2-2, i 2-2 = 8. Colour.—Back a peculiar light brown perhaps best described as a buffy, greyish isabella-colour, tinged with ecru drab on sides of neck, and everywhere slightly clouded (not "lined") with black. Median dorsal region with a sharply detined black stripe about 2 mm. wide thrown into relief posteriori}! by a distinct lightening of groutd colour along i
. Catalogue of the mammals of Western Europe (Europe exclusive of Russia) in the collection of the British museum. Mammals. 538 RODENTIA backward so that its length is slightly more than double its greatest width. Mammte : p 2-2, i 2-2 = 8. Colour.—Back a peculiar light brown perhaps best described as a buffy, greyish isabella-colour, tinged with ecru drab on sides of neck, and everywhere slightly clouded (not "lined") with black. Median dorsal region with a sharply detined black stripe about 2 mm. wide thrown into relief posteriori}! by a distinct lightening of groutd colour along its edges. tSides ochraceous- buff, not strongly contrasted with back, but distinctly more yellow and with rather sharply-drawn line of demarcation; below the colour of sides passes insensibly into the lighter, less yellow ochraceous-buff of belly. Ear black sprinkled with bufty hairs and with a narrow butty edge. They are rather strongly contrasted with surrounding parts, this effect heightened by the presence of an ill-defined though evident patch behind ear. Feet a light indefinite buffy brown rather lighter than belly, the toes a little more pallid. Tail obscurely bicolor, sepia above, dull cream-buff below. Longer hairs of back black to extreme tip ; basal colour everywhere slaty. Sl^uJl and teeth.—The skull difiers from that of S. trizona. Fig. 105. Sicista loriger. Xat. size. FIG. lOG. Sicista loriger. Xeetli. x 9. merely in the somewhat more slender rostrum; least depth behind incisors about equal to width in same region. Teeth as in the related species, but discrej^ancy in size between premolar and first molar more pronounced, the crown area of the smaller tooth about one-fourth that of the larger. Measurements.—Three adult females from Malcoci, Dobrudscha (in alcohol): head and body, 55, 56 and 58 ; tail, 69, 75 and 76 ; hind foot, 14, 15 and 15; ear from meatus, 11, 12 "4 and 12. For cranial measurements see Table, p. 541. Specimens examined.—Six, five fr
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