WHITE-BARRED AGUARA FOX. 261 
and black, as were also the muzzle, edge of the lips, 
and eyelids; there were five toes on all the feet, 
those on the hind feet well developed and armed 
with long claws; the nose, back of the ears, a small 
space on the shoulders, and the hinder face of the 
legs were reddish buff, the front paler, and the 
inside more grey; round the eyes the hair was 
whitish hoary; the cheeks and forehead yellowish 
grey ; from the nape of the neck all over the back 
to three or four inches down the tail the colour was 
blackish grey, with a bar on the neck and another be- 
hind the shoulders of nearly pure white, relieved by 
deep black, but with some whitish intermixed with it, 
passing down towards the elbows and a third white 
bar across the root of the tail: the ridge of the 
back was nearly black, but grizzling downwards in 
irregular brindles of black and white to the sides, 
which with the breast, hams, and belly were grey ; 
the tail formed a regular brush, but proportionally 
shorter than that of the foxes, furnished with grey 
hairs to the end where it was black, with a few 
white hairs at the tip; the ears were rather large, 
pointed, thickly furred with grey hair, and a little 
fulvous at the back ; the external part of the thighs 
was white down to the tarsus; the sides of the 
neck, shoulder, flanks, and hams delicate grey ; the 
limbs pale buff. This beautiful animal came from 
South America, and, judging from the density of 
the fur, belonged to rather a high latitude. It forms 
a kind of counterpart to Thous mesomelas of the 
Cape, and might be mistaken for it. 
