HYRAX. 



209 



a-b. 



Stuffed, ^&9 

 Stuffed juv. 

 Skull 



Skull 

 Skull 

 Skin 



Spitzkoff 

 Afiica. 



Mt., 



juv. 



W. ?. Sherwill, AS B. 

 W. S.Sherwill, A.S.B. 

 W.S. Sherwill, A.S.B. 



W.S. Sherwill, A.S.B. 

 W.S. Sherwill, A.SB. 

 No history, A.S.B. 



Hyrax brucei. 



Hyrax brucei, Gray Ann. Mag. N. H., (4), i, p. 44 (1868); Blanford 



P. Z. S., 1869, p. 642 ; id. Abyssinia, p. 252. 

 Hyrax alpini, Gray Ann. Mag. N. H., (4), i, p. 45 (1868). 

 Hyrax ferrugineus at irroratus, Gray Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), iii, p. 242 



(1869). 



Distrihutioji, 



a. Skin 



b. Skin 



-The Abyssinian Highlands. 



W. T. Blanford. 



d. 

 e. 



/. 



g-h. 



J- 



Skull 



Skeleton 



Skin 



Skin 



2 Skins juv. g 



? 

 Skin 

 Skin 



Adigrat, Abyssinia, 

 8,000 ft., 26-4-68. 



Anseba valley, Abyssi- 

 nia, 4,000 ft, 7-68. 



Abyssinia 



Abyssinia 



Adigrat Abyssinia, 

 8,000 ft., 7-4-68. 



Adigrat, Abyssinia, 

 8,000 ft., 24-4-68. 



Adigrat, Abyssinia, 

 8,000 ft. 24-4' 68. 



Abyssinia 



Somali land 



W. T. Blanford. 



W. T. Blanford, 1868. 

 W. T. Blanford, 1868. 

 W. T. Blanford. 



W. T. Blanford. 



W. T. Blanford. 



W. T. Blanford. 

 J.H.Speke, 1855, A.S.B, 



Order CARNIVORA. 



Mammalia with hairy bodies; with clavicles incomplete or 

 wanting ; radius and ulna, tibia and fibula complete; radiale and 

 intermedium fused ; no centrale ; manus and pes with five digits ; 

 thumb never opposable ; terminal phalanges armed with sharp 

 claws; skull with strong occipital ridges, wide zygomata, and 

 generally incomplete orbital ring ; nasals large and thin ; glenoid 

 cavity transversely elongated to which the mandibular condyle 

 corresponds, thus limiting the motion of the lower jaw to a verti- 

 cal movement; dentition heterodont and diphyodont; teeth simply 

 coated with enamel, not compound ; incisors f generally; in some 

 forms the last enlarged premolar of the upper jaw and the first 

 molar of the lower have trenchant edges and act as a pair of 

 scissors and are called the sectorials; placentation zonary. 



Sub-order I. FISSIPEDIA. 



Terrestrial carnivora with manus and pes rarely webbed but 

 bearing well-developed claws ; hind-limbs and tail free ; pinnae of 

 ear well developed ; incisors f . 



