CYNICTIS OGILBYII.— Smith. 
Mammalia. — Plate XVI. — Male. 
0 supra ochreo-flavus, nigro-brunnco alboque sordido penicillatus; infra sublactifloris ; mento gu%ue 
ad album transients ; cauda patull fortiter depress®, et fere distich®, apice acute, albo; aunbus 
externe rubro-brunneis, interne subalbis; oculis rubris ; unguibus lmdo-brunneis, versus apices 
pallidis. 
Longitudo corporis cum capite 15 unc; caudfe, 9j unc. 
Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the head, neck, body, and tail and 
the outer surfaces of the thighs ochre-yellow, freely and delicately pencilled 
with blackish brown and dirty white. The latter colours are all that exist to 
produce variegations on the parts mentioned, and both occur upon each ban, 
-the dirty white at the point, and the blackish brown some short dis ance 
behind it On the hinder part of the back and upper aspect of the tail, the 
blackish brown is most strongly displayed, and produces on both an irregular 
chequered, or brindled appearance. The under parts of the neck, body, and 
tail, as also the tip of the latter, and the parts of the extremities not already 
mentioned, dull cream-yellow; the chin, upper part of the throat, and lips, 
towards the angles of the mouth, dusky white. The hair and fur of the head 
and body towards the skin, a rusty slate colour. Ears externally rich red- 
dish brown, internally dirty white. Muzzle black; eyes red; nails livu 
brown toward their bases, light liorn-coloured at the points ; soles of the fc 
brownish red. . 
Form, &c.— Body rather slender; extremities delicate; tad narrow, sub- 
cvlindrical, and tapering to the point, in which particulars it exhibits a 
/reater resemblance to Herpestes than Cynictis. The hairy covering is of 
two descriptions, fur and hair; the fur constitutes a considerable proportion 
of the covering of the head, body, and extremities, but is entirely wanting on 
the tail • it is shorter than the hair, and is only to be seen distinctly by sepa- 
rating the latter. The hair is long on the back, thighs, and tail, where it 
• to a shaggy appearance; it is every where rigid, on the body 
strongly recumbent, “and on the tail divergent, thereby giving to the latter a 
somewhat distichous form. It is in the hairy portion of the cover, ng that 
the diversity of colours occur, and which produce the brindled appearance 
