THE CAPE HYRAX. 
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the upper and lower lips whitish, as is also the 
point of the chin, the throat, and the other under 
parts, as already mentioned. The ears are short 
and roundish, with their tips projecting but little 
beyond the hair with which the animal is covered ; 
outside they are beset with long dusty whitish 
hair, and inside they have a mere scanty coating 
of the same colour. Directly in the middle of 
the back, about half way between the shoulders 
and rump, is a narrow longitudinal whitish blotch, 
and about the centre of the chin is a transverse 
darkish band. The tail is wanting ; the feet and 
toes are covered above by a dirty reddish-white 
hair ; the whiskers are long, black, and situated 
on the anterior parts of the upper lip, and some 
similar looking hairs occur immediately over each 
eye. 
“ The teeth in this species differ a little from 
those in the other Cape Hyrax, more particularly 
the incisors ; but as I have not had an opportunity 
of examining them minutely, I may only mention 
at present, that the upper ones are more pointed, 
and that the lower ones stand in pairs, from the 
two intermediate ones being separated by a con- 
siderable interval. The latter are also a little 
shorter than the lateral ones, and all of them have 
their tips tri-dentated. 
“ This animal is found in many of the forests of 
South Africa, and is occasionally seen coming out 
