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followed by a similar length of white, then a much longer subter- 

 minal one of black, the tip being white. The same style of pelt and 

 coloration is found on the sides, tail, belly and legs, except that the 

 bristling hairs become fewer, almost disappearing on the shoulders 

 and sides of neck and becoming obsolete on the underparts. The 

 tail is unicolor, except a short white tip. There is a well-defined 

 occipital band of black between the anterior bases of ears, forming 

 a V-shaped extension into the middle of the white crown patch and 

 connecting across the anterior base of ear with the black area of 

 cheeks, nose, lower head and supraorbital stripe. There is a faint 

 isolated patch of white half way up between the eye and the mouth, 

 and a conspicuous patch of the same in front of and below each ear. 

 The feet are sparsely clothed with coarse, black hair, becoming 

 bristly on the toes and exceeding them in length. The whiskers 

 reach almost to shoulders and are wholly jet-black. The backs of 

 ears are very sparsely clothed with short brownish and white hairs, 

 but their margins and inner surfaces are thickly set with bristly 

 white hairs, 3 to 5 mm. long. The lateral band of short spinuous 

 hairs, which divides the dorsal from the costal mane areas, begins 

 broadly and sharply at the base of the neck on a line with the ear, 

 and terminates indefinitely near the sacrum in a slender point of 

 hairs. The larger of the hairs measure about 20 mm. long and are 

 olivaceous brown, becoming rusty near the tips, with whitish sub- 

 terminal ring and minute black tip. The median abdominal and 

 pectoral areas are blacker than the sides. 



Measurements (of body, taken in flesh before skinning, by the 

 collector)— Total length, 380 mm ; tail vertebrae, 140 ; hind foot 40 ; 

 ear (from crown, dry skin), 12.5. 



Skull — Total length, 52 ; basilar length (of Hensel), 46 ; greatest 

 breadth, 31; interorbital constriction, 10; length of nasals, 16; 

 greatest breadth (anterior) of nasals, 6.8 ; basal breadth of nasals, 

 5 ; length of upper molar series (alveolar), 12.2 ; length of mandi- 

 ble, 34; breadth of mandible, 15.2. 



A fine skin of a male, with perfect skull, forms one of the most 

 valuable treasures in Dr. Smith's collection. It was taken at Sheikh 

 Husein, September 30, 1894, and is now mounted and deposited in 

 the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 The skull forms a separate presentation (No. 3,803) in the Acad- 

 emy's collection. 



