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|[)alc red ; on the back each liair towards its base is grey: 

 bristly hairs rough, and covering the others. On the upper 

 parts of the neck and back each hair is annulated with white and 

 tipt either with black or reddish, so that the surface colour is 

 a mixture of black, reddish, and white; nose, eyebrows, beard, 

 and cheeks, black ; ears moderately pointed and margined with 

 white, inner surface bare, a tuft of hair at the external open- 

 ing ; outer surface covered with short pale straw-coloured hair ; 

 on the head an intermixture of white hairs ; temples, throat, 

 breast, and belly, whitish. Neck surrounded by a pale straw- 

 yellow ring; inner sides of feet and outer sides of legs, whitish ; 

 inner sides of fore feet, a spot on each shin and the back parts 

 of the heels of the hinder feet red-brown, the soles moderately 

 covered with hair. On the upper surface of the tail, about an 

 inch from its root, an irregular black spot, and many of the 

 bristly hairs are tipt with bkick ; extremity of tail black ; nails 

 long and somewhat curved ; eyes clear brown. Length from 

 nose to tail about nineteen inches and a half; tail ten iuclies; 

 liei^ht at the shoulder about nine inches, at the rump nearly 

 ten inches. 



Inhabits Abyssinia. 

 Ruppell, op.cit. p. 33. tab. 11. Abu. Hossein of the Arabs. 



Cams Chama, Smith, (ThcAsse.) Muzzle, centre of face, and 

 top of head, yellowish brown, variegated by an intermixture of 

 bristly hairs annulated black and white ; sides of head an 

 uniform whitish yellow ; upper lip, towards angles of mouth, 

 lower lip, and chin, blackish brown ; whiskers and edges of 

 eyelids black ; ears large, outer surfaces yellowish red, inner, 

 margined with white hairs, elsewhere bare. Woolly hairs of 

 neck and body abundant ; their tips reddish white or yellowish 

 white, elsewhere a dull smoke colour ; bristly hairs abundant 

 on back of neck and centre of back ; on sides, shoulders, and 

 outsides of thighs, less numerous, all annulated black and 

 white ; the tips black. Extremities yellowish white, inclined 

 to white on their anterior surfaces ; a large brownish black 

 blotch on the posterior surface of each hinder extremity about 

 half-way between the feet and base of tail. Under parts of 

 neck and body whitish yellow. Tail very bushy, the prevailing 

 colour yellowish white, the upper surface towards base variegated 

 with bristly hairs annulated black and white, the black, about 

 three inches from the root, is so disposed as to give an appear- 

 ance of one or two waved transverse black stripes ; from thence 

 to the point the bristly hairs arc all tipt with black, and at the 

 very extremity of the tail they arc almost entirely of that colour 

 60 that it appears perfectly black. Length from nose to base 

 of tail twenty-three inches; length of tail thirteen inches* 

 height at shoulder twelve inches, at rump thirteen inches. 



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