380 Mr. J. Scully on Mamwals from Afghanistan. 



here and there. The fur is soft and moderately long, grey at 

 the base all over the body, then isabelline, and, where dark 

 markings appear on the surface, the tips of the hairs are 

 blackish. The head is grizzled grey, darker than the back, 

 the sides of the nose pale fulvous, the cheeks white. The ears 

 are pale isabelline behind, brown at the tips, and inside the 

 hairs are whitish. The limbs are pale yellowish grey in 

 front, with faint dusky markings near the body ; inner side 

 whitish, except the plantar and palmar surfaces, which are 

 brownish black. Tail above on proximal half fulvous grey, 

 with dusky dfishes resembling those of the back, below whiter 

 and almost free from dark markings like the belly ; rest of tail 

 greyish white, with four black rings and a black tip 1 inch 

 long. This specimen is closer to F. caudata than to any other 

 species with which I am acquainted ; but from want of speci- 

 mens for comparison and in the absence of the skull 1 cannot 

 feel certain that the identification is correct. 

 1. Maimanah. 



3, Canis lupus^ Linn. 



A flat skin, without skull. Nose to root of tail 37"5 inches; 

 tail 12 ; hair at end of tail 2*5 ; ear from orifice in front 3'8. 

 There is no black on the ears or the hind limbs; the fore 

 limbs have a narrow black stripe down the front, ending 

 about 6 inches above the point of the toes. Down the 

 middle line of the back and along the upper surface of the 

 tail the hairs are mainly black, and the tip of the tail is quite 

 black. 



J . Afghan Turkestan. 



4. Vulpes montana, Pearson. 



These are again two flat skins, without skulls. From nose 

 to root of tail they measure about 29 and 31 inches ; tail 15'o ; 

 hairs at end of tail 2*5. The face is rufous, with the usual 

 dark patch below the eye ; the ears are wholly black behind, 

 the ordinary dark cross on the shoulders is present, and the 

 tail-tip is white. One skin has the greater portion of the 

 front of the fore limbs black ; in the other this part is rufous ; 

 in both specimens the underparts are grey. In the larger 

 animal, probably a male, the fur is much longer and softer 

 and the tail more bushy than in the other ; and the claws, 

 which in both are unusually large, curved, and sharp-pointed, 

 are more powerful. Both these skins can be fairly matched 



