208 CANID^. 



Canis caama, A. Smith, South African Quart. Jburn. 

 Vulpes caama, Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mavim. p. 87. 



Hah. South Africa {Dr. A. Smith). 



The skull 815 rf in the British Museum, out of this skin, is very- 

 like that of Urocyon virginianus in the form of the crown-plate, 

 but it differs from that skull in the bullae of the ear-bones being 

 longer, more ventricose and rounded, and in the last upper tuber- 

 cular grinder being small and more triangular, narrower on the 

 inner edge. 



Fiff. 29. 



Skull of F&Miecus caama. (South Afiica, No. 815 a.) 



14. LEUCOCYON. 



Tail very full and bushy ; soles of feet densely furred. Fur, of 

 the adult, white ; of the young, greyish lead-colour. Pupil oblong, 

 erect. Skull short ; nose broad below the orbits. 

 Leucocyon, Ch-ay, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 521. 



Leucocyon lagopus. B.M. 



Canis lagopus, Linn. Fauna Siiec. p. 4 ; S. N. i. p. 59 ; Pallas, Zoog. 



Mosso-Asiat. i. p. 51, t. 5 ; Tilesivs, Nov. Acta Acad. Nat. Cur. xi. 



p. 375, t. 47 ; Blainv. Osteogr. t. 5 (skull). 

 Canis (Vulpes) lagopus. Rich. F. Bor.-Amer. i. p. 8.3, 1829. 

 Vulpes lagopus, Aud. <^- Bach. N. A. Qmul. ii. p. 89, t. 121, 1829 ; 



Gray, List Manini. B. M. p. 60 ; Gerrard, Cat, of Bones of Mamm. 



p. 88. 

 Leucocyon lagopus. Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 521. 

 Renard blanc, Bvffon, H. N. Snppl. vii. t. 51. 

 Arctic Fox, Pennant, Shaw. (Skulls 780 a, c, d.) 



Junior ? Sooty black. Skull shorter and broader. 



Canis fuliginosus, Shaw, Zool. i. p. 351. (Skulls 1316 a, b, c.) 

 Sooty Fox, Pennant. 



