FENNEC; OR, ZERDA. 
This curious little animal, has given rise 
to much altercation, respe6ling both it's na- 
ture and it's name. 
/ Mr. Pennant, who calls it, with most natu- 
ralists, the Zerda, has given us the figure, as 
first published by Skioldebrand, at Stockholm, 
in 1777 ; which he has accompanied with the 
following account. 
" It has," he says, a very pointed visage ; 
long whiskers; large bright black eyes; very 
large ears, of a bright rose-colour, internally 
lined with long hairs, the orifices of which 
ire so small as not to be visible, and probably 
:overed with a valve or membrane; legs and 
"eet like those of a Dog; and a taper tail. 
The colour, between a straw and pale brown, 
t's length, from nose to tail, ten inches ; the 
;ars, three inches and a half long ; the tail, six ; 
nd the height, not five. It inhabits the vast 
)esart of Saara, which extends beyond Mount 
Atlas ; 
