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body. Hind-legs : black ring round the heels ; metatarsus black 

 in front. False hoofs large and long. Tail straight and long, 

 of the general color of the body, and ending in a tuft of black 

 hair. From the tip of the nose to between the eyes, 10 in. From 

 nose to between the ears, 15 in. From point of the nose to root 

 of the tail, 50 in. From the root to the end of the tail, 19 in. 

 Length of the tuft, 4 in. Length of the ears measured in front, 

 7^ in. Ears with the pencil, 12^ in. 



This species is different from the P. jyejiicillafus, (see Pro- 

 ceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1852, page 129). 

 The most striking difference is in tlie color of the head ; this in 

 the latter being black, but white in this species ; in the latter the 

 tail is black, while in this it is red and tufted with black hair at 

 the end. 



The P. albifrons is found in all the countries I have explored, 

 in the interior and in the high table-lands, and is very abundant 

 between Cape Lopez and Cape St. Catherine, and on the head 

 waters of the Fernand-Yaz River. 



4. Genetta Fieldiana, (Du Chaillu,) sp. nov. 



Description of an adult male. Ground yellowish gray ; body 

 covered with brownish black spots. Top of the head rufous,* 

 mixed with gray, running to a sharp point a little below the eyes ; 

 whiskers long and white, some of them brown at the base, and 

 some of the shorter ones entirely brown ; ears cinereous with 

 dark hair at the base ; cheeks cinereous mixed with rufous ; four 

 dark spots, somewhat in a circle, an inch beyond the angle of the 

 mouth, just under the ears ; circle round the eyes dark brown, 

 under it a white spot running toward the nose ; sides and front 

 of the nose white ; chin and throat cinereous. On the neck above, 

 behind the ears, two longitudinal bands, brownish black mixed 

 with a little rufous, running backward and outward over the 

 shoulders behind the fore limbs; between these an indistinct 

 median band of the same color, soon becoming double and diverg- 

 ing;, and between the shoulders dividing into five longitudinal 

 bands, of which the median is continuous to the base of the tail, 

 increasing gradually in width ; the two laterals on each side 

 broken up into five or six smaller longitudinal spots ; on the 

 flanks a row of seven or eight spots of the same blackish brown 



