THE FENNECK. 



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OTOCYON.-Otoc^on Lalandii. 



animal should enjoy the power of procuring that food in which it so delights is a very 

 extraordinary circumstance, and one which would hardly be expected from a creature 



FENNECK.- Vulpes Zaarensls. 



which partakes so largely of the vulpine form of characteristics. The date-palm is a 

 tree of a very lofty growth, and the rich clusters of the fruit are placed at the very summit 



