548 COL, TEEBURY AND MR. O. THOMAS ON [June 18, 



This is probably the Cat occasionally seen near the edge of the 

 desert. A¥hen Yerbury was shooting Sand-Grouse in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Shulaif, in company with Mr. Chevallier, the latter 

 said that he had fired at a large Cat, but had not bagged it. 



16. Felis caracal, Griild. 



Two specimens of this Lynx are known to be have been obtained 

 in the neighbourhood of Aden : one is in the possession of 

 Mr. Chevallier, and was shot by him near Haithalhim in the year 

 1884 or 1885 ; the other was obtained later on by another 

 emjiloye of the Telegraph Company, but exactly when and where 

 was not recorded. 



17. Herpestes, sp. inc. (probably H. alhicauda, Cuv.). 



A Mungoose was seen at Haithalhim. The white-tailed species 

 has been recorded by Thomas from Muscat, and no doubt occurs 

 at Aden. 



18. Htjsna by JEN a., Linu. 



A Striped Hyaena was brought into Aden from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Bir Ahmed, and was seen by Mr. C. Chevallier. 

 Hyaenas are reported to have been seen in the neighbourhood of 

 Camp Aden ; but this is the only authenticated record of its existence 

 that is forthcoming. 



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19. Canis aurbus, Linu. (or antlms, Geoffi-.). 



A Jackal is without doubt to be found in the neighbourhood : 

 one was seen near the Municipal bungalow at Shaik Othmau, and 

 another in Aden itself near the Isthmus position. 



20. VuLPEs KiLoiicA, Geoffr. (?) 



a,h. rf $ . Shaik Othman. 5. IV. 95. 



The form obtained appears to be the common one in Aden itself 

 and round the isthmus, that seen in the desert being altogether a 

 brighter coloured animal. 



In the present somewhat chaotic state of our knowledge of 

 Foxes we do not venture to assign these specimens positively to 

 V. nilotica or any other species ; but there seems to be so little 

 difference between them and Egyptian examples, that we propose 

 to use this name for the present. We may note that some at 

 least of the specimens from Muscat, determined by Thomas ^ as 

 V. hucopns, Bly., are really the same as the present comparatively 

 large animal ; while others, again, agree very closely with Eajputaua 

 examples of Blyth's species, as Blanford has pointed out^. 



Terbury saw at Daraimia an individual of what he believed to 

 be a second species of Fox, but was unable to procure a specimen. 

 Perhaps this will prove to be the true V. leucopus. 



1 P.Z.S. 1894, p. 450. 



- Malum. Brit. Ind. p. 152 (1888). 



