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A hypsodont, rather short-haired species with an elongated 

 orange gland-patch, probably related to P. kerstingi, but with 

 the backs of the ears yellowish grey, indistinctly edged with 

 black on front border (instead of wholly black), and the hairs 

 of the gland-patch orange throughout (instead of dark in the 

 lower half). (General colour dull yellowish sandy, sparsely 

 speckled with black towards rump; under-parts dark Ijufftsh, 

 not sharply defined from dark area above ; head greyish 

 brown, without yellow suffusion. Total length, 450 mm. ; 

 basicranial length, 72 mm. 



IX. PEOCAVIA SYKIACA (Fig. 21). 



Hyrax syriacus, Schreber, SdugtJdere, vol. iv, pi. ccxl, B, 1784, p. 923. 

 1792 ; Griffith, Animal Kingdom, vol. v, p. 293, 1827 ; Hemprich 

 and Ehrenberg, Symbol. Phys. decas i, pi. ii, lower figure, 1828 ; 

 Heuglin, Fauna Bothen Meeres, Peterm. Mittheil. 1861, pp. 16 

 and 19 ; Tristram, Fauna Palestine, p. 1, pi. i, 1884 ; F'lower 

 and Lydekker, Study of Mammals, p. 418, 1891 ; Camerano, 

 Boll. Mus. Torino, vol. xxvi, no. 64, 1911. 



Hyrax sinaiticus, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. i, p. 45, 

 1868, Cat. Carnivora, etc. Brit. Mus. p. 288, 1869, Hand-List 

 Thick-skinned Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 42, 1873. 



Procavia syriaca, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 62 ; Bonhotc, 

 ibid. 1909, p. 798. 



Typical locality Syria ; the range includes Palestine, the 

 Sinaitic Peninsula, and Arabia. 



Fig. 21. — The Syrian Hyrax (Procain'a .syriaca). 



General colour apparently dark and heavily washed with 

 fulvous ; cheek-teeth relatively large. 



