new Shrew and Two new Foxes. 198 
description has already induced Dr. Saturnin to say that it 
should be put asidé as indeterminable. 
No shrew like this is known from Egypt, C. olivierd being 
twice as large, while C. religiosa is far smaller and belongs to 
a wholly different group. 
Vulpes vulpes anatolica, subsp. n. 
Darker and duller coloured than otner foxes of S.E. Asia, 
the upper surface a more or less muddy reddish brown. 
Central line of nape and withers washed with blackish. 
Middle of back (saddle) dull cinnamon-rufous, the usual 
whitish subterminal rings on the hairs only appearing on the 
rump. Under surface washed with dull whitish, the hairs 
broadly slaty basally, the chin and throat blackish slaty. 
Back of ears deep black. Pale shoulder-patches dull buffy, 
not conspicuous. Fore legs deep fulvous or blackish, feet 
fulvous with greyish metacarpal patch. Hind legs dull 
smoky fulvous, a line down inner side whitish ; feet paler 
fulvous on top, with a darker patch on metatarsus, inner sides 
buffy whitish. Upper surface of tail dull rufous (nearest to 
* orange-cinnamon”); under surface pale buffy, with the 
hairs of the subterminal part washed with black; the extreme 
end dull white, not forming a conspicuous white tassel. 
Dimensions of the type (measured on skin) :— 
Head and body 650 mm. ; tail 335 ; hind foot 132. 
Skull: greatest length 138; condylo-basal length 126; 
zygomatic breadth 71; nasals 49; interorbital breadth 25; 
breadth across postorbital processes 31; breadth of brain-case 
45°5 ; height of brain-case from between bullee 38-5 ; palatal 
length 69; length of p* on outer edge 12°6 ; combined length 
of m! and m? 14; breadth of m* 11-2. 
A male skull, older than the type, measures 134 mm. in 
condylo-basal length. 
Hab. Asia Minor. Type from Smyrna, a second specimen 
from Marash. 
Type. Young adult female (fully developed, but the basilar 
suture not closed). B.M. no. 6.10.16. 2. Original num- 
ber 57. Collected and presented by W. Griffitt Blackler, Esq. 
This is a dull-coloured fox, markedly different in general 
tone from the light-coloured foxes, more or less of a desert 
type, found to the east and south of its habitat. 
It was first obtained by Mr, C. G. Danford, who brought 
from Marash the skin referred to in P. Z. 8S. 1880, p. 53. 
That skin, however, had no skull, and I have therefore taken 
as type the specimen from Smyrna presented by Mr. Blackler, 
