62 



THE SMALL-EARED DOG. 

 CJNIS .\tir"'--rfs. 



lamu mierUu, ScUtrr, Pruc. Zoal. Soc. I8M2. p. G31, pi. 47 



Tint* inlcrotiiig and Mx'iiiingly ficruliftr •|»crir« i»f Camiiia wm m*dc 

 kiiuwn to Kicncx.* ihrough n living individaal winch rmnir to the (ianlcnii 

 of tlir Zoolugtcal Sicicty fn»m the A ^ '-'inlKT I''*»i, and 



wn- dr»rnlH-d, nainiHi, and flguivd in tm; » i-. i. .mij^** of the Soaely 

 l.v Dr. Slater. F.U.S. 



After ita death it mm de|ioiMtrd in the Hntith Mutcum, and the 

 skin of this unitjuc ii|MTimen and ty|>c of the t|M!Cio wc have had 

 reprettrnlcd (Plate XVI.), at well a» ilt •lull. 



\\ lii-n nlive the animal stood aliout ft>urtern inches high over the 

 shoulders, 'llic note ia rather eloiigateti and |iointr<I. Ixit the car«. a* 

 its imniea implies, are remarkniily uliort. 



Tlie fur i« hliort and close, and generally of a dark iron-grey , the 

 Iwum, wliirh are black at their tip*, being while toward* their boMv 

 The limbs and tail are nearly black. The can am of a nifons colour 

 Iwth interiuilly and extenially, but there are sorac whitish Imirs within. 

 The snout is also of a rufous colour. The tail is bushy, and there 

 IS a curious round {>atrh nf white undenieath it, near its root. 



llabilat. lianks of the Amazons. 



Leugth fruiii .>u<iiii in t\.nn >>i iaii 780 



„ ofUil 27 



,, frum heel to tip of loiigi*<it di)pt . 1-3 



of ear . .T J 



