208 CANID^. 



Caais caama, A. Smith,-South African Quart. Journ. 

 Vulpes caama, Gerrard, Cat. of Somes of Mamm. p. 87. 



Rab. South Africa {lir. A. Smith). 



The skull 815 a iu the British Museum, out of this skin, is very 

 like that of Urocyon virginianus in the form of the crown-plate, 

 hut it differs from that skull in the bullae of the ear-bones being 

 longer, more ventricose and rounded, and ia the last upper tuber- 

 cular grinder being small and more triangular, narrower on the 

 inner edge. 



Fig. 29. 



Skull of Fenneeus caama. (South Africa, No. 815 a.) 



14. LEUCOCYON. 



Tail very full and bushy ; soles of feet densely furred. Fur, of 

 the adult, white ; of the young, greyish lead-colour. Pupil oblong, 

 erect. SkuU short ; nose broad below the orbits, 

 Leucocyon, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 521. 



Leucocyon lagopus. £.M. 



Canis lagopus, lAnn. Fauna Suec. p. 4 ; S. N. i. p. 59 ; Pallas, Zoog. 



Posso-Asiat. i. p. 61, t. 5 ; Tiiesius, Nov. Acta Acad. Nat. Our. xi. 



p. 375, t. 47 ; Blainv. OsUogr. t. 5 (skull). 

 Oania (Vulpes) lagopus, JRicA. F. Bor.-Amer. i. p. 83, 1829. 

 Vulpes lagopus, Avd. Sr Pack. N. A. Quad. ii. p. 89, t. 121, 1829; 



Gray, List Mamm. P. Jf. p. 60 ; Gmrard, Cat. of Pones of Mamm. 



p. 88. 

 Leucocyon lagopus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 621. 

 Renard blanc, 5««^ore, -HI N. Sitppl. vii. t. 51. 

 Arctic Fox, Pennant, Shaw. (SkuUs 780 a, c, d.) 



Junior ? Sooty black. Skull shorter and broader. 



Canis fuliginosus, Shaw, Zool. i. p. 361. (Skulls 1316 a, h, c.) 

 Sooty Fox, Pennant. 



