. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 8 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. white. In the adults with worn teeth the entire pelage above is huffier, as well as the eye spots and ventral side of the tail. The adult males are brighter buff or fulvous as compared with the females, which even in the adult, seem grayer, like the young. One specimen has the extreme tip of the tail white. The type locality, Moab, must be near the northern limit of its range. Dr. Phillips obtained it at Suweira, Nuheibeh, and Um Shomer in the Sinai region, then fart
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 8 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. white. In the adults with worn teeth the entire pelage above is huffier, as well as the eye spots and ventral side of the tail. The adult males are brighter buff or fulvous as compared with the females, which even in the adult, seem grayer, like the young. One specimen has the extreme tip of the tail white. The type locality, Moab, must be near the northern limit of its range. Dr. Phillips obtained it at Suweira, Nuheibeh, and Um Shomer in the Sinai region, then farther north at Petra, and in Syria at Wady Hesa, Wady Ain Musa, and Beir el Doleh. Several young specimens from one third to one half the adult size were collected in late April and early May at Petra and Beir el Doleh. Dipodillus mariae Bonhote. Mrs. Bonhote's Pigmy Gerbil. Dipodillus mariae Bonhote, Proc. Zool. soc. London, 1909, p. 792. This minute grayish species was but recently described on the basis of two specimens from the Mokattam Hills, near Cairo, Egypt. A single male collected by Dr. Phillips at Wady Feiran, Sinai, corre- sponds completely with the published description, and seems thus to represent the third recorded specimen. The known range of the species is extended considerably to the eastward by this capture. Microtus guentheri (Danford and Alston). Guenther's Vole. Arvicola guentheri Danford and Alston, Proc. Zool. soc. London, 1880, p. 62, pi. 5. Eight specimens of a short-tailed yellowish vole I have provision- ally referred to guentheri, with the description of which they seem to agree. All are from localities in the valley west of Mt. Hermon. In the original diagnosis, the presence of five plantar tubercles is given as a chief distinguishing character, but in some specimens then1 seems to be a minute sixth one indicated. The ears project distinctly ft the fur of the head, and instead of being well haired near their margraa as stated by the describers of gue
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