13. PENNECTTS. 207 



Skull elongate; brain-case ovate. Temporal muscles separated 

 from each other by a very wide urn-shaped crown to the occiput. 

 Upper premolars compressed ; flesh-tooth compressed, with a small 

 internal process in front ; tubercular grinder much wider than long. 

 Bullae of ears very large, thin, swollen and rounded below. Africa. 



Femiecus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 619. 



1. Penneciis dorsalls. (Sabora.) B.M. 



Cams dorealis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 132. (B.M.) 

 ? Canis famelicus, PiippeU, Zool. Atlas, p. 15, t. 66. 

 Caiiis Ruppellii, Sefanz, Cuv. Thierr. iv. p. 508. 

 Femiecus dorsalis, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 519. 



Hah. Sandy deserts of Kubia and Cordofan (called " Sabora " by 

 the Arabs) ; West Africa, Senegal (B.M.). 



2. Pennecus zaarensis. (Fennec.) B.M. 



Canis zerda, Zimmerm. Geogr. Gesch. ii. p. 242 ; Lmckart, Isis, 1825, 



p. 211 ; jRwppell, Zool. Atlas, p. 5, t. 2. 

 Fennecus zaarensis^ Gray, P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 619. 

 Cams cerdo, Qmehn, 8. N. i. p. 76. 

 Oanis fennecus, Lesson, Man. p. 168. 

 Megalotis cerdo, Terig. Prod. p. 131. 

 Feimecus cerdo. Gray, Denham, i. p. 85. 



Fennecus arabicus, Sonnini Sf Desm. iV. Diet. d'H. iV! xi. p. 342. 

 Fennecus Brucei, Desm. Mamm. p. 236 ; Enc. MMh. 1. 108. f. 9. 

 Viverra aurita, Blumenb. Sandb. p. 95. 

 Vulpes minimus zoarensis, Skjoldebrand in K. Vetens. Akad, Sand, 



1777, p. 266, t. 6. 

 Vulpes zoarensis. Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 62 ; Gerrard, Cat of 



Bones of Mamm. p. §7. 

 Fennec, Bruce, Travels, v. p. 128, t. 28. 

 Animal anonyme, Buffon, H. N. Siippl. iii. p. 148, 1. 19. 

 Whitish. Dog, Shaw (from Bruce'). 



Hah. Northern Africa {Bruce, Biippell), Algiers. 

 SkuU 182 c. 



3, Fennecus pallidus. (Hosseen.) B.M. 



Canis paUidus, RuppeU, Zool. Atlas, p. 33, t. 11. 

 Vulpes paUidus, Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. p. 87. 

 Fennecus pallidus. Gray, P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 620. 



Hab. Darfur and Cordofan (Buppell) (called " Abu Hosseen" by 

 the Arabs). 



Skull 814 a ; orbits very large. SkuU 814 h, described by M. de 

 BlainviUe when in the Museum of the Zool. Soc. 



4. Fennecus caama. (The Asse.) B.M. 



Skull — the crown broad, vase-shaped, rather contracted behind, 

 and linear near the occiput. 



