Mammalia. 85 



ference white ; toes without nails. Length from nose to tail 

 thirty-four inches ; length of tail twenty inches. 



Inhabits South Africa, — in rivers, lakes, and bays. 



Diet. Scien. Nat. xxvii. p. 248. Aonyx Lalandii Lesson. 

 Mamm. p. 157. 484. Isid. Geoff. Diet. Class m. p. 5\9. 

 •Otter of the Cape Colonists. 



Genus Canis. Linnceus. 



Incisors §, canines \ \, violars f ?, — 42. The three first molars 

 in the upper jaw, and the four in the lower, small, edged ; the 

 great carnivorous tooth above biscuspid, with a tubercle on the 

 inner side ; two tuberculous teeth behind each of the large car- 

 nivorous ones ; muzzle elongated ; tongue soft ; ears erect ; fore 

 feet five-toed ; hinder feet four-toed ; teats inguinal and ventral. 



Canis aureus, 'LnmsiVi'S. (TheChacal.) Hairs rigid, short 

 about the nose, on the hack three inches lon^. The colour of 

 the upper parts of the body a dusky tawny, on the back mixed 

 with black ; lower parts of body yellowish white ; extremities 

 tawny brown ; the fore legs commonly marked with a black 

 spot on the knees. Ears erect, formed like those of the com- 

 mon Fox, but shorter and less pointed ; externally they are 

 covered with a brownish hair tinged with dusky yellow ; inter- 

 nally with a white hair : eyes yellowish brown ; lips black ; 

 tail thickest in the middle, black at the extremity, elsewhere 

 of the colour of the body. Length from nose to base of tail 

 twenty-nine inches ; length of tail about eleven inches : height 

 at shoulder about eighteen inches and a half ; at the rump 

 rather greater. 



Inhabits Barbary and Asia. 



Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 59. C. Barbarus, Shaw. Zool. t. 311. 

 Lupus aureus, Ksempf. Ann. Exot. 413. Schakal, Penn. Quad. 

 262. Le Chackal, Buff. Sup. vi. Deab or Dib of Barbary. 



Canis mesomelas, Gmelin. (Cape Jackal.) Woolly hairs, 

 on back, sides, and belly, dull white at their bases, dusky or 

 tawny at their tips ; on the neck they are entirely a dull white. 

 , From the hind head to the root of the tail a clear black band, 

 narrow on the neck and broad on the back, where it is more 

 or less chequered, particularly in the centre, by white variega- 

 tions, in the form of large spots or stripes ; sides of neck greyish 

 white, most of the hairs with black points ; shoulders pale 

 tawny, brindled with black, excepting a large blotch on each, 

 which is nearly without any intermixture of the latter colour. 

 Sides, anterior part of belly, outer sides of extremities, outer 

 surface of ears, and the muzzle, light rufous shaded with tawny ; 

 anterior surface of ears broadly margined with white hairs ; 

 upper and lateral parts of head grizzled, greyish white, tawny. 



