b THE SELOUS COLLECTION'. 



Order CARNIVORA. 



Family CANID^. 



SIDE-STRIPED JACKAL. 



Caxis adustus. 



Canis adustus, Sundevall, Ofvers. Akad. Forliandl. Stockholm, vol. iii. 

 p. 121, 1847. 



Distinguished from the Black-backed Jackal, Canis mesomelas, 

 by its silvery grey coloured coat, white tail-tip, and, usualh^, by the 

 presence of a well-marked white diagonal stripe on each side of body. 



Tyi)ical locality, " Caffraria interiore" ; range from the Transvaal 

 northwards across the Zambesi into Nortliern Rhodesia. 



3 — 19. 7. 15. 3. July, 1895. Uniniati River, Mashonaland, Southem 

 Rhodesia. 



EAST AFRICAN GREAT-EARED FOX. 

 Otocyox yiegatus. 



Otocyon idrgatus, Miller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. xlii. p. 485, 1909. 



A small fox-like animal with ver}^ large ears ; distinguished 

 from the true foxes and dogs by having three or four upper molar 

 teeth and four lower ones on each side of the jaws. This form is 

 distinguished from the South African O. mcgalotis by the underside 

 of the body being buff-coloured instead of creamy white, and 

 having the tail marked above with a distinct black stripe. Miller 

 in his original description states that the skull differs from that of 

 megalotis in the Hatter, less inflated auditor}^ bullae, and the 

 absence of a notch between the angular and subangular processes 

 of the mandible. 



Typical locality, Naivasha Station, Ken3'a Colony ; range from 

 Tanganyika Territory northwards through Kenya Colony towards 

 Abyssinia. The Abyssinia Grreat-eared Fox was recently described 

 by Cabrera * as a distinct form under the name canescens ; both 



* Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, vol. vi. p. 462, 1910. 



