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and black, tlic proportion of the latter great before and under 

 the ears. Lips, chin, throat, and under parts of neck, yellowish 

 white ; many of the hairs on the latter slightly tipt with black : 

 insides of extremities, breast, and centre of belly behind, white 

 with tawny shades. Tail largest near the middle, whitish 

 above towards its root, with the points of a few of the hairs 

 black, from thence to the tip the hairs are white at their 

 bases and black at their points ; those close to tip nearly en- 

 tirely black, beneath towards base reddish white, passing into 

 deep rufous. Length from nose to base of tail about thirty 

 inches; length of tail about twelve inches : height at shoulder 

 about eighteen inches. 



Inhabits South Africa. 



Cape Schakal, Penn. Quad. p. 265. Cape Jackal, Shaw's 

 Zool. \. 310. Ja^^kal of the Colonists. 



Canis Niloticus. (Egyptian Fox.) Woolly hair soft, abun- 

 dant, and of a grey colour ; the bristly hairs are a foxy red, 

 a few of them on the back and sides tipt with yellow. Lips, 

 chin, and part of the cheeks, white ; whiskers and outer sur- 

 face of ears black ; throat, under parts of neck and belly, and 

 the sides of feet, ash grey, bordering on violet blue ; tip of the 

 tail white ; soles of the feet moderately covered with hair ; 

 nails projecting ; eyes brown. Length from nose to root of 

 tail twenty-five inches ; length of tail twelve inches and a half; 

 height at shoulder thirteen inches and a half, at rump fourteeu 

 inches. 



Inhabits EgA'pt. 



Canis Niloticus aut ^gyptiacus, Geoff. Coll. Mus. Par. 

 Desm. Mamm. 204. Rupell, op. cit. p. 41. tab. 15. Sabora 

 of the Jrabs. 



Canis variegatus. (Variegated Jackal.) The woolly hair is 

 soft, and bright ochre coloured ; the rigid hairs of the back 

 and sides ochre coloured at their bases, then black, then ochre 

 coloured, the tips shining black, and disposed in patches, so as 

 to produce a chequered black and yellowish surface. Head 

 rather broad ; nose blunt and black ; muzzle dark ochre co- 

 loured ; forehead, crown, and cheeks, variegated with short, 

 black, white, and brown hairs; inner surface of ears bordered 

 with white hairs ; outer surface an uniform ochre colour : chin, 

 throat, breast, and belly, dirty white ; whiskers, cheeks, and 

 eyebrows, black. Tail short, chequered like the back with 

 black spots ; extremities long, the hinder ones longest, ochre 

 coloured, darkest towards the body, the hair very short ; solos 

 of the feet bare and black ; nails short, thick, blunt, and black. 

 From neck to base of tail a black mane, the hairs several inches 

 long ; eyes brown. Length from nose to base of tail two feet 



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