GUAR AX A aGUARA FOX. 263 



Guaraxa, which Professor Lichtenstein, in his care- 

 ful review of the works of Marcgrave and Piso, 

 compared with the above drawings, considers to be 

 synonymous with d'Azara's Aguarachay. In form 

 and stature the Guaraxa is very like the Mesoleu- 

 cus, the head and limbs appearing equally small 

 and light, when compared with the volume of body 

 and tail, both being covered with loose and rather 

 coarse hair, the tail is however much longer; the 

 nose, cheeks, and forehead sooty grey ; the nose to 

 the eyes, the back of the ears, and extremities from 

 the joints downwards sepia brown ; the neck, back, 

 belly, sides, hams, and tail yellowish white, darker 

 on the back flanks and hams, and waved on the 

 neck, back, and croup with indistinct bars of sepia 

 brown, which appears likewise in similar forms on 

 tlie tail, where there are about tliree bars and a 

 sooty tip. 



