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ruf escent tinge, white below. The basal half of the dorsal fur is dark 

 purplish grey in some skins, the distal half grey or rufescent; in other 

 cases the hairs are light ashy grey almost throughout, the longer and 

 coarser hairs have white rings near the end and black tips on the back. 



Fiff. 1. 



Vulpes cana Blaiif. Photographie nach dem Exemplar des Moskauer Zoolo- 

 gischen Museums. 



The long tail-hairs are ashy near the base, white near the ends, the 

 tips black, the black tips being more developed posteriorly so that the 

 tail has a black tip, though less defined than in V. hengalensis. Ears 

 grey '■'outside, creamy white on the margin and within; forehead rufous; 



Fig. 2. Kopf des Vulpes cana. 



a dusky or black spot on each side of the muzzle. Outside of the limbs 

 dark rufous or dark ashy, almost black in some cases.« 



In den Sammlungen des Zoologischen Museums der Universität 

 Moskau befindet sich ein schöner gestopfter Balg eines Fuchses dieser 

 Art, der von Th. K. Lorenz geschenkt wurde. Auf meine Bitte stellte 

 Herr Lorenz mir liebenswürdigst zur Durchsicht und zum Vergleiche 



