ISO African Zoology. 



JJyrnx C'lpensis, Schreber. (Cape Hyiax.) Hair moderately 

 Ions: and soft; the surface colour of the upper aud lateral parts 

 of the head and neck, of the back, sides, and outer surfaces of 

 extremities, dusky black or brownish black, ^ ery freely pen- 

 cilled with pale tawny, indeed the two colours may be said to 

 1)8 nearly in equal proportions. The mottled appearance arises 

 from most of the hairs being annulated with tawny near their 

 points. Chin, lower parts of neck, breast, belly, and inner- 

 sides of extremities, tawny, yellow-white or dull white, the 

 sides of the former pencilled with black. The bases of the 

 hairs of the upper and lateral parts blackish brown, those of 

 the under parts like the tips. Ears rounded, inner surfaces 

 covered with short whitish hair, outer surfaces with blackish 

 hair ; whiskers and eyebrows loncf, black, and bristly; on each 

 cheek and under lower-jaw, a tuft of similar bairs, and on the 

 jieck, bodj', and outer sides of extremities, others of a like 

 description, are thinly interspersed amongst the general cover- 

 ing and project greatly beyond it. Eyes black. Length from 

 nose to hiuder extremity of body eighteen inches; height at 

 shoulder about six inches. 



Inhabits South Africa, — rocky situations. 



Hyrax Capensis, Pallas, Miscell. p. 34. Tab. iii. Specil. ii. 

 p. 22. Tab, ii. Daman Cuvier, Descrip. Osteol. et Comparat, 

 in Jnn. da Mus. iu. p. 1/1. Tab. xix. xx. Klip Das of the 

 Cape Colonists. 



Obs. Some Naturalists consider this and tlie Hyrax Syriacus as 

 identical. 



Hyrax arbor eus. Smith. Hair rather long and soft ; colour 

 above tawny red, freely mottled or pencilled with black ; lower 

 parts of the sides reddish white "with less of the black pencil- 

 ling ; upper and lower lips, chin, and under parts of body, and 

 inner surfaces of extremities, dull white ; on the crown of the 

 Lead, black is the predominating colour ; tlic sides and centre 

 of the muzzle covered with short dusky or reddish white hair ; 

 eyebrows white ; whiskers long and black ; ears short, rounded, 

 and projecting but little beyond the fur ; outer surfaces covered 

 ■with long dusky white hairs, inner surfaces, scantily, with hair of 

 the same tint ; on the centre of back, about half-way between 

 head and vent, a narrow longitudinal white blotch, and be- i 

 neath, about the middle of the lower-jaw, a transverse black — 

 stripe ; feet and toes covered with a dirty reddish white hair. 

 The two centre incisors of lower jaw with tricuspid points. A ^ 

 number of strong black hairs, much lono-er than the general . i 

 covering, are scattered on the back and sides, and assist in pro- ! 

 ducing the variegated surface colour ; the bases of the short • | 



