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the upper and lower lips whitish, as is also the 

 point of the chin, the throat, and the other under 

 parts, as already mentioned. The ears are short 

 and roundish, with their tips projecting but little 

 beyond the hair with which the animal is covered ; 

 outside they are beset with long dusty whitish 

 hair, and inside they have a mere scanty coating 

 of the same colour. Directly in the middle of 

 the back, about half way between the shoulders 

 and rump, is a narrow longitudinal whitish blotch, 

 and about the centre of the chin is a transverse 

 darkish band. The tail is wanting ; the feet and 

 toes are covered above by a dirty reddish-white 

 hair ; the whiskers are long, black, and situated 

 on the anterior parts of the upper lip, and some 

 similar looking hairs occur immediately over each 

 eye. 



" The teeth in this species differ a little from 

 those in the other Cape Hyrax, more particularly 

 the incisors ; but as I have not had an opportunity 

 of examining them minutely, I may only mention 

 at present, that the upper ones are more pointed, 

 and that the lower ones stand in pairs, from the 

 two intermediate ones being separated by a con- 

 siderable interval. The latter are also a little 

 shorter than the lateral ones, and all of them have 

 their tips tri-dentated. 



" This animal is found in many of the forests of 

 South Africa, and is occasionally seen coming out 



