Dr. J. E. Gray on the Species ©/"Hyrax. 45 



name which Ehrenberg gives to this species it evidently 

 came from Dongola in Africa ; so it can scarcely be the H. 

 syriacus of Ehrenberg from Mount Sinai. 



5. Hyrax Alpim. 



Fur very soft, rather long, pale yellowish brown, very 

 slightly washed with blackish ; hairs soft, of uniform length, 

 blackish brown, with yellow tips, and a few scattered black 

 hairs : lips, chin, throat, chest, belly, and inner sides of the 

 limbs pale reddish yellow ; hairs yellow to the base : crown and 

 cheeks grizzled, with white tips to the hairs ; hairs at the outer 

 base of the ears yellow white; dorsal spot small, reddish 

 yellow. 



Hab. North Africa, ^'Abyssinia (Leadbeater)." 



There is only a single specimen of this species in the British 

 Museum ; it was purchased in 1843, with the skin of a Copra 

 nuhiana, from Mr. Leadbeater, who said they came from Abys- 

 sinia. The special habitat may be doubtful ; but there is no 

 doubt they were from North Africa, and probably from the 

 borders of the Nile. 



It agrees with the H. Brucei of Abyssinia in the softness of 

 the fur, but differs from it in its general colour, not being 

 closely punctulated, and also in the separate hairs not having 

 any indication of the subterminal black band that produces the 

 punctulated appearance of the fur of that species ; and the 

 underside of the animal is yellower. It differs also from H. sinai- 

 ticus in the general colour being much darker and slightly 

 washed with black, and in the dark colour of the hairs. 



H. Burtoniiy which we received from Mr. James Burton, 

 with specimens of Capra nuhiana^ is at once known from it 

 by the rigid harshness of the fur, as well as by the colour of 

 the hairs. 



6. Hyrax sinaiticus. 



Fur rather long, soft, pale yellow brown ; dorsal streak 

 bright yellow ; head and front slightly punctulated with 

 whitish ; chin, throat, and underside of the body pale reddish 

 grey. " Interparietal bone small, pentagonal" (Ehr.). 



Hyrax syriaais vel sinaiticus, Hemp. & Ehrenb. Symb. Phys. t. 2, lower 



front figure (not Sclireber). 

 Coney (H. syriacus), Tristram, Nat. Hist. Bible, p. 75 (not figured). 

 Uabr, Forsk. Fauna, p. 5. 



Hab. Asia, Palestine (Tristram) : B.M. Arabia, Mount 

 Sinai (Ehrenberg). 



There is a young specimen in the British Museum, that was 



