SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



The Red Fox of Bartram, the Ceylonese Dog of PennaHt, 

 and Shaw, and Vosmaer, and the Bengal, and the Sooty 

 Fox of the same writers, are too doubtful for insertion. 



The Dog, the Chacal, and the Fox, are intimately con- 

 nected, and we could insert several others from drawings 

 with pretensions to a distinct notice, as probable species or 

 permanent varieties. 



III. Lycaon. Brooks. Head short; incisive teeth not 

 forming a regular series, the central one in each jaw being 

 olaced more internally than the rest ; the body, Hycena-like, 

 higher before than behind ; joints of carpus very weak. 



388. 1. C. Tricolor (Burchel's Lycaon.) Ochraeous-yellow, 

 >lotched and brindled with black, intermingled with white 

 spots. 



Hyena! Picta, Temminck, Mem. de Bruxell. Canis Pictus, 

 Oesm. Mamm. 1 . 538. Lycaon Tricolor, Brook's Mus. Anat. 



Painted Hyena, Grz^iA, Vert. Anim. Loup. Feint. D^^w?. /. c. 



Icon. Temminck, I. c. t. Griffith, Vert. Anim. Burchel,Trav. 



Inhabits Cape of Good Hope. 



The skeleton of this animal agrees exactly with that of 

 he Dog and the Wolf, except in the want of the toe and in 

 he placing of the cutting teeth ; the head is also shorter, 

 nd, consequently, the teeth closer together ; but the for- 

 nation of the male organ of generation is said to be diflfer- 

 nt from that of the Caninse, and consequently the mode 

 f copulation different ; and it is understood that Mr. 

 Jrooks, who possesses a skeleton in his splendid museum, 

 reats it therefore as a genus, under the name Lycaon. 



IV. Megalotis. Tlliger. Toes five; ears very large; 

 eeth ? tail tufted, head long, acute. 



389. L Megalotis Lalandii (La]and's Fennec.) Gray, the 

 airs of the dorsal line longer and blacker; tail very tufted, 

 lack, gray at its base ; feet black. 



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