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THE TRUE FENNEC. 



CANIS ZEBDA. 



Canis zerda, Zimmerraann, Geograph. Geschiclite, vol. ii. p. 247 (1780) ; 



Riippell, Zool. Atlas, p. 5, pi. 2; Cuvier, Regne Aiiiin. 



2nd edit. vol. i. p. 153; Smith, S. Africaa Quaiterly 



Journal, p. 90 (1835); J. A. Wagner, Supplement to 



Schreber's Saugth., Abth. ii. p. 420. 

 Canis cerdo, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 75 (1788). 

 Canis fennecus, Lesson, Man. de Mammalogie, p. 168 (1827). 

 Vulpes minimus zoarensis, Skioldebrand, Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens 



Ilandlingar, vol. xxxviii. pp. 2G5, 267, and plate (1777). 

 Fennecus brucei, Desmarest, Mammalogie, p. 235 (1820). 

 Fennecus zoarensis, Gray, Proc. Zool. Son. 1868, p. 519; id. Cat. of 



Carnivorous Mammalia, p. 207. 

 Megalotis cerdo, Illiger, Prodrom. p. 131 (1821). 

 Megalotis zerda, Hamilton Smith, Jardine's Nat. Library, vol. ix. p. 237, 



pi. 30. 

 The Zerda, Pennant, History of Quadrupeds, vol. i. p. 248, pi. 28 



(1781) ; Sparrman, Voyage to Cape of Good Hope, vol. ii. 



p. 185 (1786). 

 Fennec, Bruce, Travels, vol. v. p. 128 and plate (1790). 

 Animal Anonyme, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Suppl, vol. iii. p. 148, pi. 19 



(1776). 



Phis beautiful little animal — at once recognizable by its extremely 

 large ears — was first made known to science by Bruce, inasmuch as he 

 transmitted a written notice and drawing of it to Buifon, who pul)lislic(l 

 it in the year 17 70, thus preceding a similar publication by Skiuldc- 

 brand in the Swedish 'Transactions' for 1777. 



Bruce and Skioldebrand were simultaneously consuls at Algiers, 

 and Sparrman, who in 1786 published the account of his voyage to the 

 Cape, states therein that Bruce had previously seen the animal in 



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