90 African Zoology. 



luhabits Namaqiialaiid and the country on both sides of the 

 Orange river. 



Canis Zerda, Boddacrt. (Brace's Fennec.) General colour 

 . white, inclininjf to straw-yellow ; above from hind head to root 

 of tail light rufous brown, delicately pencilled with fine black 

 lines, which are produced by some of the hairs being tipt with 

 black ; outer sides of thighs light rufous brown. Chin, throat, 

 breast, belly, and inner sides of extiemities, white or cream- 

 coloured ; sides of the muzzle white, and from the inner corner 

 of each eye descends a narrow brownish stripe ; edges of lips, 

 whiskers, and bristles over the eyes and on the cheeks, black. 

 Ears large, erect, and pointed: externally covered, with short 

 pale rufous-brown hair, internally thickly fringei*^blf^he mar- 

 gins with greyish white hairs of about an inch in length, else- 

 where bare. Tail very bushy, cylindrical, and of a rufous 

 brown colour, with fine black lines like those of the back ; on 

 the upper surface, about an inch and a half from its root, a 

 dark brown spot ; the tip is black ; nails straight and strong. 

 Woolly hairs dirty white at their roots and isabella coloured to- 

 wards their tips ; the bristly hairs of the back are tricoloured, 

 viz. dark bluish grey at their roots, white in the middle, and 

 light rufous brown at the tips. Length from nose to base of 

 tail about fifteen inches and a half; length of tail eight inches 

 and a half; height at the shoulders seven inches and three- 

 quarters, at the rump nearly eight inches and a quarter. 



Inhabits Abyssinia, Bruce; — J^uhia, Ruppell; — Central Africa, 

 Denkam. 



Canis cerdo, Gm. Fennecus Brucii, Desra. Mamm. 235'. 

 Animal Anonyme, Buff. Sup. vii. Fennec, Bruce, Travels in 

 Abyssinia. 



Canis mcgalotis, Cuvier. (Latande's Fennec.) Hair rather 

 shaggy, particularly along the centre of the back, where it 

 forms a sort of mane ; colour above iron-grey, shghtly tinted 

 with yellow, inclined to fulvous. On the middle of the back, 

 forehead, cheeks, and sides of muzzle, finely freckled black 

 and white ; centre of muzzle bla/jk towards forehead, brownish 

 towards nose ; under lip, chin, <ind whiskers, jet black. Ears 

 very large, margined towards their tips with black, towards 

 their bases with white ; inner .Surfaces thinly covered with 

 greyish white hairs ; under parts hi neck and body tawny white ; 

 extremities blackish brown, towards toes inclined to black ; 

 tail towards tip black, towards base tawny grey, variegated 

 with some black hairs. The bristly hairs of the back and sides 

 annulated, tawny brown, greyish, and black. Length from 

 nose to base of tail about three feet ; length of tail about fifteen 

 inches r 



