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FENNEC OF BRUCE. 
Megalotis zerda. 
PLATE Xx: 
Zerda or Durda of the Natives. 
Dr Ruppet’s specimens are one foot four inches in 
length ; the tail eight and a half inches; the ears 
three and a half inches; and the height at the 
shoulder six and a half inches. The head is only 
three and a half inches long, the cranial part very 
round, and the muzzle small and fine; the ears are 
very ample, slightly pointed, covered outside with 
cream-coloured fur, inside with a border of white 
hair, and the rest naked, in the living animal 
showing a pinkish colour. In the rest of its form 
it is a miniature fox; the fur is of cream colour, 
with the woolly under-coat dirty white; the irides 
are yellow; the pupils round; the tail is marked 
on the upper surface, near the base, with a black 
spot, and the tip is of the same colour; the soles of 
the feet are covered with woolly hair. Dr Riuppel’s 
specimens were obtained about Ambukol, and in 
the desert of Korti; and the species must extend 
to the south as far as Caffraria and the Cape colony, 
