OF THE CANIDE AND URSIDA. 917 
scantily hairy, but laterally, close to the proximal margins of the 
pads and behind the naked rim above described, the hair grows 
in the form of a long fringe. This combination of features 
is only found in one other dog that I have examined, namely, 
Lycaon pictus. 
Similar features are presented by the hind foot, which, how- 
ever, 1S thinner and longer than the fore foot, the third and 
fourth toes being more prominent and less widely separable 
and the plantar pad narrower. z 
The rhinariwm is bluntly rounded in profile view. Its inferior 
edge seen from the front is strongly angular, the margin below 
the nostrils being deep anteriorly and narrow and_ shallow 
posteriorly beneath the slit; the nostrils are smallish and widely 
spaced, and the median groove does not extend up between 
them. 
The facial vibrisse are normal in position and of moderate 
length, and in the specimen examined the superior genal tuft 
consisted of two unusually widely spaced bristles. 
Lycaon pictus Temm. 
(Text-fig. 3.) 
A single example of LZ. pictus sharicus examined. 
The main peculiarity about the feet of this dog, namely, the 
suppression of the first digit of the fore foot, is well known, but 
IT am not aware that other characters have been recorded. 
In one feature at least the fore foot recalls that of Vulpes 
vulpes, namely, in the length and narrowness of the area between 
the plantar and carpal pads, but here the resemblance ceases, for 
both these pads are large, as in Canis. 
The paw itself is strikingly like that of Cuon, except that the 
digits are longer. Very suggestive of kinship between the two 
genera are the equality in the spacing of the four toes, due to the 
comparatively wide separation between the third and fourth digits, 
the nakedness of the edge of the web which joins these two digits 
together, and the great length of the hairs fringing the proximal 
margin of the digital pads, and the scantiness of the hairs clothing 
the sole between the plantar pad and these fringes. 
The hind foot is like the front, but is narrower and not so 
widely splayed. 
The chief interest attaching to the feet of Lycaon is their 
likeness in the particulars mentioned to those of Cuon, espe- 
cially as kinship between these two has been suggested on other 
grounds. 
The rhinariwm is large and wide, rounded anteriorly in profile 
view ; its upper and lower edges parallel and transverse when 
seen from the front, the inferior edge sinvous and without any 
marked median inferior prolongation. The nostrils are large, 
rounded, and somewhat widely separated, the posterior slit of the 
nostril is bordered below at its posterior end by a thick area of 
