226 Mr. J. Scully on some Mammals from Kandahar. 
V. Grofithi, the type being a specimen obtained at Kandahar 
by Capt. Hutton. Col.. Swinhoe has brought home two 
skulls of foxes killed near Kandahar in December; and these 
certainly tend to confirm the view above mentioned, that there 
are two separable forms of foxes in that country. 
The larger skull, which I have now to notice, exactly 
resembles several skulls of the true V. montana from Gilgit ; 
and I cannot doubt that it is referable to that species. Com- 
pared with examples of V. vulgaris, the whole skull is smaller 
in all its dimensions ; but the teeth are decidedly larger. 
The following are the cranial and dental measurements of 
this specimen :— 
millim 
Motalilen och 7 sets Mere aay ida we ket. etna eects Ra 139 
Zyeomaticibrendt hyn se neh en Aenea ee 70 
Mena thyorupalate niin earn erase ee rele eee 69 
reddchvotipallate meant m nein Tussle a net i 38 
eneth, Of ee hee ala ake iat ante Vee 14 
Length of eT a ath) MASI STA Be Re Lil 
Broad favo t 2 Nae 4 Urn uN yO ane A lied ee 14 
Length of LENG a ANIME RO RESALE aah) 0 6 
BESACE NOR hele SNL, ee Blea 9 
Weng thyorpmandi ploy eyer-teyrarejerete ely ets oleae eee 100 
Mength Of Fee sree ee eee es 16 
Length of eee cece ete tence nea 74 
Length of wesc cece eee ee eee eee ees 35 
Vulpes Griffitht, Blyth. 
Vulpes Griffithi, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiii. p. 780 (1854), and xiv. p, 344 
(1845). 
Capt. Hutton notes that this species is numerous in the 
valleys around Kandahar, hiding in burrows and holes in 
rocks. Of two specimens which he measured he gives :— 
Length of head and body 24 inches, tail 17 and 17°5 ; height 
at shoulder 14 and 15. Blyth says that V. Griffiths is of 
about the size of V. pusillus, and larger than V. bengalensis 
and V. iewcopus, with longer fur than in the last-mentioned 
species, ‘“ and the pale parts tinged with yellowish fulvescent.”’ 
The following is his detailed description of the pelage of 
V. Griffithi:—“ The winter fur is long and soft, and is of 
two sorts—a shorter and delicate underfur, which on the back 
is darkish, passing to white on the sides and underparts, and 
pure white on the sides of the neck and shoulders in some, 
m others but partially so, and longer straight hairs, black- 
