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Family VIVERRIDAE 



HERPESTES ICHNEUMON (Linnaeus) 



Viverra ichneumon Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 43, 1758 (Egypt). 



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

 Simbillawein. 



Description. — Color : Under fur shading from Isabella Color on neck 

 and shoulders to Cinnamon-Rufous on rump, tliighs, and base of tail. 

 Guard hairs long (about 65 mm.) and eight-banded, with alternating 

 white and black bands; tips of guard hairs brownish instead of black 

 as rest of bands ; face, chin, muzzle, and dorsal surfaces of hands and 

 feet, blackish ; palms and soles naked ; belly sparsely haired. Entire 

 animal, owing to banded hairs, presents a grizzled appearance. Ears 

 small and rounded ; tail not quite so long as head and body, and owing 

 to the banded hairs appears to be ringed ; tail more or less tufted at tip. 



Measurements. — One male from 5 miles west of Simbillawein meas- 

 ured: Total length 990; length of tail 453; length of hind foot 104; 

 length of ear from notch 37; condylobasal length 104.6; zygomatic 

 width 53.7; postorbital width 17.5; interorbital width 18.5; maxillary 

 width 32.4. 



Family FELIDAE 



FELIS CHAUS Schreber 



This cat is apparently to be found throughout the Delta region, 

 usually in low marshy places. It may be distinguished from the feral 

 Felis catus by its shorter tail (less than one-half the head and body 

 length) ; by its larger, black-tipped ears ; and by its reddish feet. It is 

 apparently not uncommon. No specimens have been examined. 



