96 African Zoohgij. 



tooth with three points ; the cheek teeth btloio uU false molars, 

 each with a single point* head short and broad, muzzle trun- 

 cated; ears long and pointed ; body formed somewhat like the 

 Hytena, higher before than behind ; a mane on the neck and 

 back: fore feet with Jive toes, hinder ones with four; tail short 

 and villous. 



Proteles typicus. (Lalaiide's Proteles.) Muzzle black, thinly 

 covered with some fine reddish fur ; hair between eyes nearly 

 black ; upper and lateral parts of head pencilled black and 

 leddish white, each hair being anmilatcd with these colours ; 

 under surface of lower jaw black ; outer surface of ears with a 

 thin covering of blackish hairs ; inner surface bare, excei)tiiig 

 the margins, which are covered with a whitish hair. Woolly 

 hair of neck and body very abundant, yellowish white, clouded 

 with subrufous towards the surface, blackish towards the body ; 

 bristly haiis abundant on the upper part of the neck and centre 

 of the back, where they form the mane, and are annulated 

 black and white ; on the sides they are scanty yellowish 

 white, and much longer than the woolly hair. On each side of 

 the neck a little below the mane, a longitudinal blackish stripe ; 

 on the body and shoulders a number of vertical ones ; on the 

 extremities towards the body several transverse ones of the 

 same colour, on a ground tint similar to that of the body. 

 Lower parts of extremities deep back in front, and on the sides, 

 rufous white behind ; throat, breast, and belly, yellowish white ; 

 tail towards root, variegated yellowish white and black ; the^ 

 last two-thirds appear nearly black, the hairs being only yel- 

 lowish white towards their bases. Length from nose to root of 

 tail three feet ; length of tail thirteen inches : height at 

 shoulder seventeen inches, at rump about fifteen inches. {Male.) 



In the female the woolly hair has scarcely any of the subrufous- 

 tints which are abundant in old males, and the mane is not 

 so black: indeed all the colours may be said to be of lighter hue. 



Inhabits South Africa. — Not very abundant. 



Viverra. ? Hyenoidcs. G. Cuvier MSS. Desm. Mam. 538. 

 Porteles Lalandii Isod, Geoffroy, Mem. Mus. xi. p. 3/0. 

 Nadrou Jackal of the Cape Colonists. 



* The teeth as described, are as they appear in adult specimens. The 

 cheek teeth often fall out at an early age, owing to the peculiar form of 

 the sides of the jaw. 



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