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THE CAPE HYRAX. 
“ This species rather exceeds the size of the 
Hyrax capensis, usually measuring about twenty- 
one inches from the tip of the nose to the extre- 
mity of the back, and about seven inches in 
height. In its general form, it resembles the 
species just named ; and in the manner of moving 
and sitting they exactly coincide. The colour 
above is a sort of tawny red, freely mottled and 
variegated with black ; on the lower parts of the 
sides, it is reddish white, with a less abundant 
intermixture of black ; and beneath, as well as on 
the insides of the legs, it is an uniform dull white. 
The reddish colour arises from the tips of most 
of the hairs being of that hue ; and the black 
variegations depend partly on a scanty intermix- 
ture of long hairs, which are entirely of that 
colour, but principally upon an exposure of the 
deeper parts of the general covering, which are 
throughout inclined to black ; and in consequence 
of- this last, being the chief source whence 
the mottled appearances are derived, that neces- 
sarily is more or less considerable according to 
the position of the hair, &c. The crown of the 
head has a predominance of black ; the sides and 
middle of the face anterior to the eyes, arc 
covered by a sort of short, dull, dusky, or reddish- 
white hair; and a whitish streak extends back- 
wards from thence over each eye. The sides of 
the head a mixture of grayish-white and black, 
