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VULPES VULPES NILOTIC A (E. Geoff roy St.-Hilaire) 



Vanis niloticus E. Geoffeoy St.-Hilaiee, Catalogue des mammif&res du Museum 

 National d'Histoire Naturelle, p. 134, 1803 (Egypt). 



Vulpes vulpes aegyptiaca, Anderson and De Winton, Zoology of Egypt, Mam- 

 malia . . ., p. 227, pi. 32, 1902 (Egypt). 



Syecimen examined. — One. Daqahlia Province: 5 miles west of 

 Simbillawein. 



Description. — Dorsal stripe, beginning between shoulders and con- 

 tinuing onto dorsal one-fourth of tail, Sanford's Brown, strongly in- 

 termixed with black hairs ; all except black hairs with a subapical band 

 of yellowish white and wide basal band of plumbeous; Sanford's 

 Brown purest on cheeks, around eyes, inside and back of fore limbs and 

 back of hind limbs; throat, chest, and belly to peneal region smoky 

 gray with some admixture of whitish hairs; inside of ears, lower part 

 of cheeks and continuing toward and beyond angle of jaws, lateral 

 and ventral surfaces of base and distal half of tail, white ; white hairs 

 of distal half of tail sparsely tipped with black ; sides, shoulders, and 

 flanks, grayish ; areas on side of neck, behind shoulder and groin, yel- 

 lowish white ; anterior face of foreleg with blackish brown, white and 

 black longitudinal stripes ; anterior face of thigh and continuing onto 

 dorsal surface of hind foot with yellowish-white stripe; posterior 

 dorsal one-half of ears black. 



Measurements. — An adult male from 5 miles west of Simbillawein 

 measured : Total length 1,052 ; length of tail 416 ; length of hind foot 

 157; length of ear from notch 101 ; greatest length of skull 149.6; oc- 

 cipitonasal length 130.3 ; condylobasal length 136.2 ; length of palate 

 73.1; width across M^ 40.7; greatest width of braincase 46.3; least 

 interorbital width (behind supraorbital processes) 20.0; length of 

 nasals 40.5; width of rostrum 25.1. 



Family MUSTELIDAE 



MUSTELA NIVALIS SUBPALMATA Hemprich and Ehrenberg 



Mustelae subpalmatae Hempkich and Ehrenp.erg, Symbolae physicae . . ., dec. 

 2, folio k, p. 2, September 1832 (in houses of Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt). 



Specimens examined. — Six. Daqahlia Province: 5 miles west of 

 Simbillawein, 2. Behera Province: Alexandria, 1. Giza Province: 

 Kaf r Taharmes, 1 ; Kuniessa, 1 ; Saket Meki, 1. 



Description. — All dorsal coloration, including hands, feet, ears, and 

 tail all around, between Brussels Brown and Raw Umber ; chin, throat, 

 chest, and most of belly, white or a yellowish white; brown of dorsal 

 coloration extending onto belly, sometimes continuous across belly but 



