FENNEC; OR, 2ERDA. 
, finotions, that he was accustomed to watch for 
n6lones over it, either for his pleastire or his 
''f food. He seemed very much alarmed at the 
^' approach of a Cat, and endeavoured to hide 
^' himself, but shewed no symptom of preparing^ 
^^jfor any defence. I never heard he had any 
voice. He suffered himself, not without some 
' difficulty, to be handled, in the day, when he 
" seemed rather inclined to sleep; bat was ex- 
' ceedingly unquiet, and restless, ' so soon as 
* iiight came, and always endeavouring his es- 
'jcape: and, though he did not attempt the wire,- 
yet with his sharp teeth he very soon mas- 
tered the wood of any common bird-cage. 
From the snout to the anus he was about ten 
inches long ; his tail was five inches and a 
quarter, and near an inch on the tip of it was 
black. From the point of his fore-shoulder, 
to the point of his fore-toe, was tvv'o inches 
and seven-eights. He was two inches and a 
half from his occiput to the point of his nose. 
The length of his ears was three inches and 
three eights. These v/ere doubled, or had a 
plait, at the bottom, on the outside. The 
borders of his ears, in the inside, were thick 
covered with soft white hair ; but the middle 
