I'r4' African Zoology. 



Ichneumon Caffer. (Grey Ichneumon.) Hair of head, 

 throat, breast, and extremities, short ; elsewhere rather long. 

 Colour grey, finely and freely pencilled with black, the hairs 

 bein^ every where aunulated alternately black and greyish 

 Avhite : whiskers black ; eyes red ; outsides of ears blackish 

 brown, insides white, freely pencilled with black; extremities 

 towards feet black, finely pencilled with white ; soles of feet, 

 behind, covered with hair. Tail rather larger near the root 

 than at the tip ; the latter inclined to a dull reddish brown. 

 Length from nose to base of tail seventeen inches and a half ; 

 length of tail sixteen inches. 



Inhabits South Africa, — abundant in the Cape Colony. 



Viverra Caffra, Gmel. Syst. Nat. 85. Le'Mems, Buff. Sup. 

 t. iii. Herpestes Griseus, Desm. Ency. Method. Grey Muis- 

 hond of the Cape Colonists. 



Tchneumon Madagascar ensis. (Madagascar Ichneumon.) Hair 

 of head, throat, breast, belly ,and lower parts of extremities short, 

 that of the other parts longer. The colour of upper and lateral 

 parts of head, and of lower parts of extremities brown-red, 

 freely speckled with black and white ; the upper and lateral 

 paits of the neck, body, and the whole of the tail, speckled 

 being black, brown-red, and pale reddish white, each hair 

 annulated with these colours, vrhich are darkest upon the 

 back; throat, and lower parts of neck, pale tawny ; breast,, 

 belly, and inner side of extremities, dirty pale rufous speckled 

 with white ; woolly hair yellowish white. Tail rather thick 

 towards root, very slender at the point ; outer surfaces of ears 

 thinly covered with short brownish yellow hair ; inner surfaces 

 more thickly, with a dull tawny sort ; whiskers black ; nails 

 dark horn-coloured. Length from nose to base of tail fifteen 

 inches and a half; length of tail about fourteen inches. 



Inhabits Madagascar. 



Obs. This species, in point of size and form, has a considerable resem- 

 blance to the Ichneumon Caifer, but the colours are ranch lighter, and 

 when the two are compaied together, the various differences are very 

 evident. 



Ichneumon fcenianotus. (Natal Ichneumon.) Hair of head, 

 under parts of neck, and lower parts of extremities, short, else- 

 where pretty long. Centre of face, forehead, crown, cheeks, 

 and space between eyes, and ears, black freely pencilled with 

 •white ; muzzle, upper and lower lips, and space under lower 

 jaw, light chesnut ; outer surfaces of ears brownish, inner sur- 

 faces dirty reddish white ; back and sides of neck, shoulders, 

 anterior parts of back and sides, and outer surfaces of anterior 

 extremities, finely pencilled black and white ; the rest of back 

 and upper parts of sides, banded transversely deep black aud 



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