CATALOGUE. 85 



Canis kokree, Sykes, Catal. of Dukhun Mamm., Proceed. 



ZooL Soc. 1831,;?. 101. 

 Canis rufescens, Gray and Hardw., Illust. Ind. ZooL II. 



pi. 3. Variety, The Doab Fox. 

 Vulpes corsac, v. bengalensis, indicus, et kokree, Blyth, 



Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XI. p. 597. Ogilby, Zool. 



App. to Royle's Botany of the Himalayas. 

 Vulpes indicus, Hodgson, Classified Catal. of the Mammals 



of Nepal. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XI. p. 908. Calcutta 



Journ. N. H. IV. p. 286. 

 KOKREE, of the Mahrattas, Sykes. Elliot. 

 KONK, KEMP-NARI, and CHANDAK-NARI, Canarese, Elliot. 

 LOMRI and NOMRI, Dukhani, Elliot. 

 LOOMREE, Hutton. 



Bengal Dog, Pennant, Quadr. I. p. 260. 

 Bengal Fox, Shaw, Gen. ZooL I. p. 330. 



HAB. The entire of India and the adjacent countries, Blyth, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XI. p. 597. 



A. Presented by Colonel Sykes. 



B. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



C. A skin in perfect state of preservation. From Grif- 



fiths's Collection. 



D. A skin. From Colonel Sykes's Collection. 



The Bengal Fox varies considerably both in size and colour in dif- 

 ferent localities. The general colour is grayish-brown with a fulvous 

 cast, passing, in some cases, to Isabella ; it is always variegated above 

 by the intermixture of whitish hairs. Colonel Sykes gives the follow- 

 ing account of its peculiarities, as observed in Dukhun. "It is a very 

 pretty animal, but much smaller than the European Fox. Head, short ; 

 muzzle, very sharp. Eyes, oblique ; irides, nut-brown. Legs, very- 

 slender. Tail, trailing on the ground, very bushy. Along the back,, 

 and on the forehead, fawn-colour, with hair having a white ring near to 

 its tip. Back, neck, between the eyes, along the sides, and half-way 

 down the tail, reddish-gray, each hair banded black and reddish-white. 

 All the legs, reddish outside, reddish-white inside. Chin and throat, 

 dirty white. Along the belly, reddish-white. Ears, externally, dark 

 brown, and with the fur so short as to be scarcely discoverable. Edges 

 of eyelids, black. Muzzle red-brown. Length, twenty-two and twenty- 

 two and a half inches ; of the tail, eleven and a half to twelve inches." 



Walter Elliot, Esq., communicates the following particulars : " Its 



