neto Shrew an I Tioo nmo Foxes. 121 



description lias already induced Dr. Saturnin to say that it 

 should be put a:iide as indettM-niinuble. 



No shrew like tliis is known from Egypt, C. oUvieri being 

 twice as larj^e, while C. relujiosa is far smaller and belongs to 

 a wholly different group. 



Vulpes vulpes anatolica, subsp. n. 



Darker and duller coloured than otner foxes of S.E. Asia, 

 the upper surface a more or less muddy reddish brown. 

 Central line of nape and withers washed with blackish. 

 Niddle of back (saddle) dull cinnamon-rufous, the usual 

 whitish subterminal rings on the liairs only appearing on the 

 rump. Under surface wasiied with dull whitish, the hairs 

 broadly shity basally, the chin and throat blackish slaty. 

 Back of ears deep black. Pale siioulder-patches dull buffy, 

 not conspicuous. Fore legs deep fulvous or blackish, feet 

 fulvous with greyish metacarpal patch. Hind legs diiU 

 smoky fulvous, a line down inner side whitish ; feet paler 

 fulvous on top, with a darker patch on metatarsus, inner sides 

 buffy Avliitisli. Upper surface of tail dull rufous (nearest to 

 " orange-cinnamon ") ; under surface pale buffy, with the 

 liairs of the subterminal part washed with black; the extreme 

 end dull white, not forming a conspicuous white tassel. 

 Dimensions of the type (measured on skin) : — 

 Head and body 650 mm. ; tail 335 ; hind foot 132. 

 Skull: greatest length 138; condylo-basal length 126; 

 zygomatic breadth 71 ; nasals 49 ; interorbital breadth 25 ; 

 breadth across postorbital processes 31 ; breadth of brain-case 

 45"5 ; height of brain-case from between bullas 385 ; palatal 

 length 69 ; length of />* on outer edge 12*6 ; combined length 

 of m} and in^ 14 ; breadth of m^ 11'2. 



A malo skull, older than the type, measures 134 mm. in 

 condylo-basal length. 



Hub. Asia Minor. Type from Smyrna, a second specimen 

 from Marash. 



Type, ^oung adult female (fully developed, but the basilar 

 suture not closed). B.M. no. 6. 10. 16. 2. Original num- 

 ber 57. Collected and presented by W. Griflitt Blackler, Esq. 

 This is a dull-coloured fox, markedly different in general 

 tone from the light-coloured foxes, more or less of a desert 

 type, found to the east and south of its habitat. 



It was first obtained by Mr. C. G. Danford, who brought 

 from Alarash the skin referred to in P. Z. S. 1880, p. 53. 

 That skin, however, had no skull, and I have theiefore taken 

 as type the specimen from Smyrna presented by Mr. Blackler. 



