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darker, nearly black. Head greyish. Tail bushy, uniformly blackish 



brown. 



Dimensions. 



Head and 



body. Tail. Hind foot. 



a. Type, Mozambique (very old) .. 208 9-1 3-25 



b. Zanzibar (Kirk) 15-0 7-0 3-0 



Skull. Palate- 



Lengtli. Breadth, length. 



o. Type (from Peters) 3-4 2-1 2-1 



This species, of which Dr. Kirk has sent us a rather small speci- 

 men from Zanzibar, is found further north than its ally B. crassicauda. 

 Our specimen being in spirit, I have been able to examine carefully 

 the state of the feet with regard to the absence of the first toes ; and 

 I find, as mentioned above, no trace whatever of these digits ; while 

 in species which normally possess five toes, and the first one is in 

 any case accidentally lost, there are generally some remains left of the 

 missing digit, in the shape of a broken metacarpal or metatarsal *• 



The species of this group would seem to be very rare, as I have 

 seen no other specimens of either B. crassicauda or puisa besides 

 the types of the two species in the Berlin Museum, and Dr. Kirk's 

 one already referred to. 



3. ?BdEOGALE NIGRIPKS. 



B. nigripes, Pucheran, Rev. et Mag. Zool. vii. p. 11 1 (1855). 

 Hah. W. Africa (Gaboon). 



"Major; corpora albescente; cauda candidissima ; artubus niffria." 

 No dimensions of any sort are given. 



Dimensions of Teeth of Bdeogale. 

 B. crassicauda. VM^. M?. Perceutage. 



a. Type (from Dr. Peters's figure). ... 7'5 S'.'i 73 

 B. puisa. 



* Zanzibar {Kirk) 6-9 4-5 66 



IV. CynictiS. Type. 



Cynictis, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1833, p. 48 C. penicillata. 



Bange. That of the only species. 



Toes 5— 4'. Teeth, l.|, C. \, P.M. f, M. |-x2=40. Muzzle 

 with a distinct naked line from nose to upper lip. Hind soles quite 

 hairy. Frontal portion of skull strongly convex, brain-case high. 

 A well-marked vacuity in the floor of the auditory meatus, consisting 

 of a more or less rounded hole, which, as the animal gets older, 



1 See above, p.61. 



^ Our only skeleton of this genus has not the smallest rudiment, even of the 

 metatarsal, of the hallux. 



