Mr. J. Scully on some Mammals from Kandahar. 225 
wolves, killed at Kandahar in December, of which the mea- 
surements in millimetres are appended; the parts measured 
are as defined by Prof. Huxley in his paper on the “ Cranial 
and Dental Characters of the Canide” (Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1880, p. 243) :— 
a. b. 
millim. millim. 
Motalvlenoth) yasea te a eee eee 230 204 
Zyeomatic breadth) ....s1 sere ee 117 105 
Weng tnvotpalacer recent tea 111 104 
Breadth of palate................ 69 64 
Mengthiot 2) hl) Aes ay 94 23:5 
Aone vols teresa ees Mn 16 14 
TERED CPS, sodcoceconovccee 20 19 
Mongth ol “2207 Meeps aantes Nasi, 8 8 
Breadth: of "2s avon cha 13 18 
Length of mandible.............. 174 152° 
JL@ WEIN Ol —— ecocccccccaounonKs 27 26 
m, 1 
Length of — . 12.11. eee e eee e ee 12 10 
Length of mop tithe tessa 6 6 
The difference in size between these two specimens is due 
to age, the smaller example (b) being the skull of a young 
animal. It will be observed that in these examples the upper 
sectorial tooth is equal in length to, or longer than, the two upper 
molars together ; in C. pallipes from India, as far as is known, 
the upper sectorial is always shorter than the two upper molars 
taken together. But it appears that this difference cannot 
alone always be relied upon for the separation of the skulls of 
the two supposed species; for Prof. Huxley gives in the paper 
above mentioned, at page 279, the measurements of the cheek- 
teeth in two specimens of C. lupus from Belgium and Russia, 
showing that in these skulls the upper sectorial and the two 
upper molars have the same relative proportions as in C. 
pallipes. However, if C. pallipes is to be ranked as a species 
distinct from C. lupus, the Kandahar wolf is evidently to be 
referred to the latter and not to the former. 
Vulpes montana, Pearson. 
It was long ago asserted by Griffith that there were two 
species of foxes in Afghanistan, distinguished principally by 
size—a large form found near Quetta, and apparently iden- 
tical with the Himalayan fox (V. montana), and a smaller 
animal, resembling the fox of the plains of North-west India. 
Blyth subsequently named the small fox of Afghanistan 
