WHITE-BARRED AGUARA FOX. 261 



and black, as were also the muzzle, edge of the lips, 

 and eyelids; there were fiye toes on all the feet, 

 those on the hind feet well developed and armed 

 with long claws ; the nose, back of the ears, a small 

 space on the shoulders, and the hinder face of the 

 legs were reddish bufF, the front paler, and the 

 inside more grey; round the eyes the hair was 

 whitish hoary ; the cheeks and forehead yellowish 

 grey ; from the nape of the neck all over the back 

 to three or four inches down the tail the colour was 

 blackish grey, with a bar on the neck and another be- 

 hind the shoulders of nearly pure white, relieved by 

 deep black, but with some whitish intermixed with it, 

 passing down towards the elbows and a third white 

 bar across the root of the tail: the ridge of the 

 back was nearly black, but grizzling downwards in 

 irregular brindles of black and white to the sides, 

 which with the breast, hams, and belly were grey 

 the tail formed a regular brush, but proportionally 

 shorter than that , of the foxes, furnished with grey 

 hairs to the end where it was black, with a few 

 white hairs at the tip ; the ears were rather large, 

 pointed, thickly furred with grey hair, and a little 

 fulvous at the back ; the external part of the thighs 

 was white down to the tarsus ; the sides of the 

 neck, shoulder, flanks, and hams delicate grey ; the 

 limbs pale buff. This beautiful animal came from 

 South America, and, judging from the density of 

 the fur, belonged to rather a high latitude. It forms 

 a kind of counterpart to Thous mesomelas of the 

 Cape, and might be mistaken for it. 



