THE SELOUS COLLECTION. 



ORDER CARNIVORA. 



Family CANID.E. 



SIDE-STRIPED JACKAL. 

 ADUSTUS. 



Canis adustus, Sundevall, Ofvers. Akad. Forhandl. Stockholm, vol. iii. 

 p. 121, 1847. 



Distinguished from the Black-backed Jackal, Canis mesomelas, 

 by its silvery grey coloured coat, white tail-tip, and, usually, by the 

 presence of a well-marked white diagonal stripe on each side of body. 



Typical locality, " Caffraria interiore " ; range from the Transvaal 

 northwards across the Zambesi into Northern Rhodesia. 



3 19. 7. 15. 3. July, 1895. Umniati River, Maslionaland, Southern 

 Rhodesia. 



EAST AFRICAN GREAT-EARED FOX. 



OTOCYO^ YIRGATUS. 

 Otocyon virgatus, Miller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. xlii. p. 485, 1909. 



A small fox-like animal with very large ears ; distinguished 

 from the true foxes and dogs by having three or four upper molar 

 teeth and four lower ones on each side of the jaws. This form is 

 distinguished from the South African O. megalotis by the underside 

 of the body being buff-coloured instead of creamy white, and 

 having the tail marked above with a distinct black stripe. Miller 

 in his original description states that the skull differs from that of 

 megalotis in the flatter, less inflated auditory bullse, and the 

 absence of a notch between the angular and subangular processes 

 of the mandible. 



Typical locality, Naivasha Station, Kenya Colony ; range from 

 Tanganyika Territory northwards through Kenya Colony towards 

 Abyssinia. The Abyssinia Great-eared Fox was recently described 

 by Cabrera * as a distinct form under the name canescens ; both 



* Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, vol. vi. p. 462, 1910. 



