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LALANDE'S ZERDA, 



Agriodus auritus^ NOB. ; Megalotis Lalandii, HAM. SMITH 

 Canis megalotis, 



PLATE XXIII.* 



FIRST figured by us in Mr. Griffith's edition of 

 Cuvier's " Animal Kingdom," and then considered 

 as a Megalotis. The animal seems to have been 

 noticed by Sir John Barrow, but M. de Lalande 

 first sent its spoils to Europe from the Cape of Good 

 Hope. In size, the Agriodus is equal to an European 

 fox : the ears are very broad, and little shorter than 

 the head, open, erect, folded at the edges, and some- 

 what square in figure; they are whitish within, 

 grey at the back, and edged with black, bordered 

 by white on the inner surface ; the head is round, 

 the muzzle rather obtuse, blackish on the nose and 

 cheeks; the forehead, neck, shoulders, and hams, 

 dark slaty-grey, with a slight intermixture of buff; 

 the throat and breast dirty whitish-grey ; the limbs 

 black ; the tail nearly as long as that of a fox, and 

 forming a brush little less dense, but coarser in tex- 

 ture, and in colour slaty-grey, paler beneath, and 

 marked with three black spots on the upper surface, 

 and a black tip. The manners of the species we 



