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under surface and at the tip isabellfi coloured ; throat, breast/ 

 and helly, a whitish Isabella hue ; neck surrounded towards 

 the breast by a band of dark stiif hairs. Nose black with a 

 white border ; lips white and a reddish stripe extends from eaclr 

 eye to a black spot on the side of the muzzle from which the 

 whiskers proceed. The rest of the head as far as the neck a 

 bright ochre colour ; ears very long, erect, greyish without^ 

 naked and flesh coloured within, and mary;iued with soft yellow 

 - hair, inside of v/hich, on the anterior surface, is a stripe of long 

 white hair ; outer sides of anterior extremities ochre red ; in- 

 ner sides pale yellow, with a greyish stripe along the front of 

 each ; hinder extremities as far as the knees chesnut, below 

 them a reddish tint, which extends as far as the heel, the 

 inner side of which is pale yellow. Toes and soles of the 

 feet enveloped in a dense yellow woolly hair ; claws long and 

 white ; eyes brown. Length from nose to base of tail twenty 

 inches; length of tail fourteen inches: height at shoulder ten 

 inches and six lines ; at rump eleven inches two lines. 



Inhabits Kordofan and Nubia. 



Rupell, oTp. cit. p. 15, tab. 5. Sabora. of the Arabs. 



Cams Antlius. (Senegal Jackal.) Woolly hair abundant, 

 and red-brown, darkest on the back, lightest on the sides ; 

 bristly hairs of the back, sides, and upper parts of the neck, 

 scarcely an inch in length ; dull white towards their bases, and. 

 most of them tipt with white, some with black and others with 

 an ochre colour, many annulated with brown near the points, 

 which, together, produce a variegated black, white, reddish, 

 and yellow surface colour. Head broad, muzzle long and not 

 very slender ; edges of the lips and beard black ; cheeks, fore- 

 head, crown and nape variegated by white, brown, and black 

 short hairs : ears erect, short, and pointed ; anterior surface with 

 white tufts ; posterior surface thickly covered with fine smooth 

 short hair : lips, chin, throat, and under-parts of neck, dirty 

 white ; neck, near to breast, surrounded by a black ring. The first 

 third of the tail above with a red-brown spot, and blackish ob- 

 long stripes, beneath ochre coloured ; the remaining two-thirds 

 black : anterior and posterior extremities ochre coloured, with 

 a dark brown tint, darkest on the outer sides ; nails blunt and 

 blacky soles of feet bare and black ; eyes brown. Length from 

 nose to tail two feet four inches ; tail about one foot ; height at 

 shoulder fifteen inches, at rump sixteen inches. 



Inhabits Abyssinia, Nubia, Egypt, and Senegal. 



Canis Anthus, F. Cuvier, Mam. Lith. tab. 17. Rupell, op. cit. 

 p. 44. tab. 17. Diel of the natives of Abyssinia. 



Canis pallidus. (Pale-coloured Jackal.) Woolly hair 

 abundant, very fine, and throughout a straw yellow, tinted with 



