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b. Fur soft, close. 



4. Hyrax Brucei. 



Fur soft, close, yello-w grey-bro-wn, closely and minutely punctu- 

 lated -with black; underside white; dorsal streak distinct, dark 

 reddish yellow ; hairs of the back soft, dark grey-brown to the 

 base, with a narrow subterminal blackish band and a yeUow tip. 

 SkuU — " interparietal bone oblong, longer than broad." 



Ashkoko, Sruee's Travels, t. 



Daman d'Israel, Buffm, Suppl vi. p. 276, t. 24 (from Bruce). 



Hyrax syriacus, Schreb. Sdugeth. iv. t. 240. f. 13 (from Bruce) ; Blain- 



ville, Ostiograph. t. 2 (skull and teeth). 

 Hyrax abyssinicus, Riippell, MS. B. M. ; Oerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. 



p. 284; Burton, MS. BM. 

 P Hyrax ruflceps vel dongolanus, Ehrmberg, Symbola Phys. t. 2 (not 



Hyrax Brucei, Gray, Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. ser. 4. i. p. 44. 



Hob. Africa, Abyssinia {Dr. Ruppell) : type in B. M. ? Dongola 

 (Ehrenberg) : adult skull in B. M. 



The name of H. syriacus cannot be retained for this species, as it 

 does not come from Syria. 



Dr. Peters, in a note which he sent to me respecting Ehrenberg's 

 specimen in the Berlin Museum, observes, " His Hyrax rujtceps is 

 hardly different from H. syriacus." By the second name which 

 Ehrenberg gives to this species it evidently came from Dongola in 

 Africa ; so it can scarcely be the H. syriacus of Ehrenberg from 

 Mount Sinai. 



5. Hyrax Alpini. 



Fur very soft, rather long, pale yellowish brown, very slightly 

 washed with blackish ; hairs soft, of uniform length, blackish brown, 

 with yeUow tips, and a few scattered black hairs ; lips, chin, throat, 

 chest, beUy, and inner sides of the limbs pale reddish yellow ; hairs 

 yeUow to the base : crown and cheeks grizzled, with white tips to 

 the hairs ; hairs at the outer base of the ears yellow-white ; dorsal 

 spot small, reddish yeUow. 



Hyrax Alpini, Gray, Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. ser. 4. i. p. 45. 



Hab. North America, "Abyssinia (Leadbeater)." 

 There is only a siogle specimen of this species in the British Mu- 

 seum ; it was purchased in 1843, with the skin of a Capra rmbiana, 

 from Mr. Leadbeater, who said they came from Abyssinia. The 

 special habitat may be doubtful ; but there is no doubt they were 

 from North Africa, and probably from the borders of the NUe. 



It agrees with the S. Brucei of Abyssinia in the softness of the 

 fur, but differs from it in its general colour, not being closely punc- 

 tulated, and also in the separate hairs not having any indication of 

 the subterminal black band that produces the punotulated appear- 

 ance of the fur of that species ; and the underside of the animal is 

 yellower. It differs also from H. sinaitieus in the general colour 



