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hairs broadly tipped with cream-buff, and with a subterminal band 

 of black ; their basal three-fourths dull whitish. Head like back ; 

 supraorbital edges scarcely paler. Ears very long, laid forward in 

 a spirit-specimen they surpass the tip of the muzzle by more than 

 an inch ; their visible bauds brown, edged with long fringes of 

 buff hairs ; their extreme tips externally black. JNape dull brown, 

 with a faint tinge of rufous. Sides paler and greyer than back. 

 Chin and belly dull yellowish white ; chest browner. Outer sides 

 of arms and legs brown, inner sides paler. Hands and feet dull 

 buff above, the long hairs of the palms and soles deep yellowish, 

 almost " ochraceous." The number and thickness of these 

 palm- and sole-bristles, combined with the extreme tenuity of the 

 forearms and lower legs, gives a most unusual appearance to the 

 whole animal, whose proportions are, however, merely an ex- 

 aggerated development of those common to many of the N.E. 

 African group of Hares. Tail rather long, black above, white 

 below. 



Dimensions of the type, an adult female, measured in spirit, 

 before skinning : — 



Head and bodv 360 mm. ; tail without hairs 60 ; hind foot 

 without claws 89 ; ear, length from head 118, from notch 99, 

 breadth 53. 



Skull : basal length 60 mm. ; greatest length 74 ; greatest 

 breadth 34-6; nasals, greatest length obliquely 28, greatest 

 combined breadth 16'1 ; intertemporal breadth 10*6 ; breadth of 

 brain-case 25*5 ; length of palatine foramen 18*2, combined breadth 

 of do. 8 - 4 ; least breadth of palatal bridge 4*4 ; length of upper 

 molar series (crowns) 10*8 ; transverse diameter of n^ 1 3-7. 



This interesting little Hare is at once distinguished from all 

 other allied members of the genus by its slender proportions and 

 its extremely small size. Its hind foot is nearly an inch less than in 

 any of the species described by Hemprich and Ehrenberg, while 

 the small size of its skull is paralleled only by some of the little 

 American species, if the abnormal L. netsclieri be put aside. 



12. Gazella mtjscatensis, Brooke. 



Gazella muscatensis, Brooke, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 142. 

 a-c. 3 ad. sks. Khode. 7 & 8/11/92. 



d. Ad. sk. Barkeh-al-Moze. 24/10/92. 



e. Do. Sharkeeyeh, or eastern part of Oman. 20/1/93. 



[/. Ad. sk. d. "Muscat, Major G. B. E. Smith, 1873. Type 

 of species.] 



These specimens, which are very valuable as having been wild- 

 killed, all agree very closely with Sir Victor Brooke's excellent 

 description and figure. 



13. Oryx Beatrix, Gray. 



a. Imm. sk. 5 . Adam, Oman Proper. 7/5/93. 



This wild-killed specimen of the beautiful Beatrix Gemsbuck is 



