1897.] mammals from morocco. i95'7 



5. Canis anthus, F. Cuv. 



d . Ras el Ain, Haha, 27th June, 1897. 



Collector's measurements : — Head and body 760 millim. ; tail 

 295 ; hind foot 165 ; ear 100. 



6. VlTLPES ATLANTIOA, Wagn. 



Canis vulpes, var. atlantica, A. Wagner, Eeiseu Eegentsch. 

 Algier, v. M. Wagner, Bd. iii. p. 31 (1841). 



Vuljjes sp., F. Cuv. (Kenard d'iiger) Mam. Lith. no. 177, 

 vol. iii. 



2 . Eas el Ain, Haha, 20th June, 1897. 



Head and body 525 millim. ; tail 315; hind foot 118 ; ear 85. 



The fur of this single specimen is peculiarly free from the 

 grizzling usually found in Foxes ; the fore and hind legs and feet 

 are bright red, with no black markings ; the hind feet have a 

 whitish stripe coming from the inner side of the heel and extending 

 down the front of the foot to the toes. The general colour of 

 the animal is bright orange-red, the tips of the underfur being 

 very foxy-red. The belly is clothed with maroon-brown fur — 

 a character, however, which would not be constant. 



The skull-measurements are : — Extreme length 120 millim., 

 breadth 65, basal length 112, front of canine to back of carnassial 

 42. The lower jaw shows an extra molar on both sides, that 

 on the left side has two distinct complete crowns. These super- 

 numerary molars are very rare in the Common Fox, as pointed 

 out by Hensel, Morph. Jahrb. 1879, and Bateson in ' Variation,' 

 p. 219 (1894) ; there is no instance among the series of V. nilotlcus 

 in the British Museum. A good figure of the animal is given 

 by F. Cuvier {torn. cit.). 



7. GrBNETTA GBNETTA (L.). 



d . Eas el Ain, Haha, 4th July, 1897. 



Head and body 460 millim. ; tail 430 ; hind foot 90 ; ear 48. 



8. Xeetjs setulus (L.). 



Fourteen skins with skulls, 9 (S , o 2 , Grlarvi, Enzel, Eas el Ain, 

 Haha, and Ecru, from April to July ; the first two localities 

 are on the Great Atlas range east of Morocco city, the last two 

 near the coast south of Mogador. 



A nice series of different ages. In old and young the belly is 

 very thinly clothed with hair. Adult females show the mammae 

 very plainly ; these are large and black, all on the belly and groins: 

 thus the formula is — 4=8. The young are darker in colour, 

 showing less brown on the back, with the underparts sooty. The 

 tail is very decidedly distichous ; in the adult there are 4 light rings 

 and 3 black, in the young 3 light and 2 black. The fur is less 

 harsh and brittle than in the typical Xenis, but there is no underfur. 



There are some interesting peculiarities in the construction of 

 the palate and pterygoids of the young animal which do not seem 



