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 AFRICAN ZOOLOGY 



By Dr. SMITH. 



Continued from page 128. 



Genus Graphiurus. F. Cuvier. 



Incisors », Canutes § o, molars { \ — 20. The first molar some-- 

 what linear, the rest cylindrical, and with fiat nearly smooth 

 crowns. Ears large and rounded; legs short, fore-feet with 

 four toes and a tubercle in place of a thuynb, hind-ftet ivitk 

 five toes ; nails strong, curved, and acute. Tail fiaticned 

 horizontally. 



Graphiurus typicus- (Cape Graphiurus.) Fur soft and of 

 moderate length ; the surface colour of the upper parts of the 

 head, superior parts of the neck, the back, sides, and outer 

 surfaces of thighs, pale grey variegated by .an intermixture of 

 rather long, black, somewhat rigid hairs. Centre of muzzle ; 

 spaces under eyes and at inner margin of each ear, together with 

 an oblique stripe in front of each shoulder, pure white ; upper 

 lip, chin, throat, breast, and lower parts of extremities, either 

 of a dull white tinted with rufous or of a pale ferruginous hue. 

 The grey tint depends upon the tips of the woolly hairs being of 

 that colour ; on the outer surfaces of the fore legs close to body, 

 where the tips are principally black, an irregular blotch of that 

 colour is more or less distinct ; the bases of all the woolly hairs 

 are bluish black or a dark slate-colour ; ears rounded, and both 

 surfaces slightly sprinkled with short blackish hairs ; each side 

 of head crossed by a deep black stripe which commences at the 

 anterior margin of the upper lip and terminates below the ear, in 

 its course encircling the eye ; whiskers long, mixed black and 

 white. Tail subcylindrical or flattened horizontally ; the hairs 

 above and on the sides, long, rigid, and white, except towards 

 their bases, which are blackish ; beneath they are entirely black. 

 Length from nose to base of tail six inches ; length of tail about 

 five inches. 



Inhabits South Africa, — in the forests about the Knysna. 



Sciurus ocularis, Smith, Zoological Journal, vol. iv. p. 439. 

 Graphiurus Capensis, F. Cuvier & Geoff. Mamm. Ed. Form. 

 Max. 



Genus Myoxus. Schreber. 

 Incisors |, canines § 3, molars J J, — 20. Molars simple 

 with transverse projecting lines; ears large and rounded; fore 

 feet with four toes and the rudiments of a thumb ; hind feet 

 with five toes; tail more or less villose, tufted or depressed; fur 

 soft ; no caecum nor large intestines. 



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