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By Dr. SMITH. 



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Genus Pedetes. Uliger. 



Incisors I, caimiesri^, molars ii, — 20. Loioei incisors cut 

 obliquely, and not pointed; cheek teeth formed of two elliptical 

 parts, united at their internal extremity and separated above by 

 a deep fur r 010 ; head short, large, and flat; muzzle obtuse, ter- 

 minated by small nostrils at right angles; ears long, narrow, 

 and pointed; eyes large; whiskers large; anterior feet with five 

 toes and long, narrow, curved nails, channelled beneath; poste- 

 rior feet with four toes, the external very small, the intermediate 

 of the other three much the largest, the rest equal, all furnished 

 •with straight, broad, triangular nails ; tail long and villose. 



Pedetes typicus (Cape Pedetes.) Hair moderately long 

 and rather rigid. Colour of upper and lateral parts of head, 

 neck, back, sides, and outer surface of extremities towards 

 body, tawny or a pale fawn colour, in the male distinctly 

 sprinldcd or pencilled with black ; upper lip, angles of mouth, 

 lower jaw, under surface of neck, inner surfaces of anterior ex- 

 tremities, feet, breast, belly, inner sides of hinder extremities, 

 and a vertical stripe on each flank, pure white ; cheeks more or 

 less varied with white ; inner surfaces of ears naked, except to- 

 wards tips where there is a thin coating of fine white down ; 

 outer surfaces towards bases covered with long hair of the same 

 colour as that of the back, the remainder fiesh-coloured with a 

 thin sprinkling of short brownish hair, the margins fringed 

 with white hair. The entire of the first third of tail and the 

 upper surface of the second third the colour of the back, the 

 sides and lower part of the latter portion white, the last third 

 black and tufted ; claws of fore-feet blackish, those of hind-feet 

 light horn-coloured. Length from nose to base of tail twenty- 

 two inches ; length of tail about nineteen inches. 



Inhabits South Africa. — Eastern districts of the Colony. 



Yerbua Capensis, Sparm. and R. Forster. Mus Caffer, 

 Pallas, Glirfs. Depus Caffer, Thunb. in Mem, de I' Acad, de 

 Petersb. torn iii. p. 309. Gmel. Helamys Capensis, F, Cuvier, 

 i« Diet, de Sc. Nat. torn xx. p. 344. Spring-Haas or Spring 

 Hare of the Cape Colonists. 



