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Dr. J. E. Gray on the Species of Hyrax. 45 
name which Ehrenberg gives to this species it evidently 
came from Dongola in Africa; so it can scarcely be the ZH. 
 syriacus of Ehrenberg from Mount Sinai. 
5. Hyrax Alpini. 
Fur very soft, rather long, pale yellowish brown, very 
slightly washed with blackish; hairs soft, of uniform length, 
blackish brown, with yellow tips, and a few scattered black 
hairs: lips, chin, throat, chest, belly, and inner sides of the 
limbs pale reddish yellow ; hairs yellow to the base: crown and 
cheeks grizzled, with white tips to the hairs ; hairs at the outer 
base of the ears yellow white; dorsal spot small, reddish 
yellow. 
_ Hab. North Africa, ‘ Abyssinia (Leadbeater).” 
There is only a single specimen of this species in the British 
Museum ; it was purchased in 1843, with the skin of a Capra 
nubiana, from Mr. Leadbeater, who said they came from Abys- 
sinia. Lhe special habitat may be doubtful; but there is no 
doubt they were from North Africa, and probably from the 
borders of the Nile. 
It agrees with the H. Brucet of Abyssinia in the softness of 
the fur, but differs from it in its general colour, not being 
closely punctulated, and also in the separate hairs not having 
any indication of the subterminal black band that produces the 
punctulated appearance of the fur of that species; and the 
underside of the animal is yellower. Itdiffers also from H. sinaz- 
tacus in the general colour being much darker and slightly 
washed with black, and in the dark colour of the hairs. 
Hf, Burtonti, which we received from Mr. James Burton, 
with specimens of Capra nubiana, is at once known from it 
by the rigid harshness of the fur, as well as by the colour of 
the hairs. 
6. Hyrax sinaiticus. 
Fur rather long, soft, pale yellow brown; dorsal streak 
bright yellow; head and front slightly punctulated with 
whitish ; chin, throat, and underside of the body pale reddish 
(74 4 99 
grey. “ Interparietal bone small, pentagonal” (Ehr.). 
Hyrax syriacus vel sinatticus, Hemp. & Ehrenb. Symb. Phys. t. 2, lower 
Saal figure (not Schreber). 
oney (H. syriacus), Tristram, Nat. Hist. Bible, p. 75 (not figured). 
Vabr, ey Fauna, p- 5. t a ( 
_ Hab. Asia, Palestine (Tristram): B.M. Arabia, Mount 
Sinai (Ehrenberg). 
There is a young specimen in the British Museum, that was 
