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THE TRUE FENNEC. 



CANIS ZEEDA. 



Canis zerda, Zimmermann, Geograph. Gescliichte, vol. ii. p. 247 (1780) ; 



Riippell, Zool. Atlas, p. 5, pi. 2; Cuvier, Regne Anim. 



2nd edit. vol. i. p. 153 ; Smith, S. African Quarterly 



Journal, p. 90 (1835) ; J. A. Wagner, Supplement to 



Schreber's Saugth., Abth. ii. p. 420. 

 Canis cerdo, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 75 (1788). 

 Canis fennecus, Lesson, Man. de Mammalogie, p. 168 (1827). 

 Vulpes minimus zoarensls, Skioldebrand, Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens 



Handlingar, vol. xxxviii. pp. 265, 267, and plate (1777). 

 Fennecus brucei, Desmarest, Mammalogie, p. 235 (1820). 

 Fennecus zoarensis, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 519; id. Cat. of 



Carnivorous Mammalia, p. 207. 

 Megalotis cerdo, Illiger, Prodrom. p. 131 (1821). 

 Meyalotis zerda, Hamilton Smith, Jardine's Nat. Library, vol. ix. p. 237, 



pi. 30. 

 The Zerda, Pennant, History of Quadrupeds, vol. i. p. 248, pi. 28 



(1781) ; Span-man, Voyage to Cape of Good Hope, vol. ii. 



p. 185 (1786). 



Fennec, Bruce, Travels, vol. v. p. 128 and plate (1790). 

 Animal Anonyme, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Suppl. vol. iii. p. 148, pi. 19 



(1776). 



THIS beautiful little animal at once recognizable by its extremely 

 large ears was first made known to science by Bruce, inasmuch as he 

 transmitted a written notice and drawing of it to Buffon, who published 

 it in the year 1776, thus preceding a similar publication by Skiolde- 

 brand in the Swedish 'Transactions' for 1777. 



Bruce and Skioldebrand were simultaneously consuls at Algiers, 

 and Sparrman, who in 1786 published the account of his voyage to the 

 Cape, states therein that Bruce had previously seen the animal in 



