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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
The South-African genet {G. figrina) is much like the typical form, but the dorsal 
line is alone really black, the side spots are larger and more or less ringed and tipped 
with brown; the two outside stripes on the neck are always broader than the inner 
ones, and in some specimens are the only stripes represented. The skull is short and 
broad ; the teeth about equal to those of G. genetta ; the nasals longer and broader, 
especially posteriorly, where they do not taper but end off abruptly ; the auditory 
bullse rather less inflated, and the paroccipital processes still more developed, reaching 
below the base of the bullse. The prominence on the back of the coronoid process of 
the mandible is entirely absent. —W. E. de W. 
Genetta dongolana, Hemp, & Ehrenb. (Plate XXVI.) 
Viverra dongolana, Hemp. & Ehrenb. Symb. Phys. 1832, dec. ii. 
Description of a male obtained from the kills of Erkoweet, near Suakin. 
Head greyish, with a blackish area between the moustachial region and the eye, a 
white patch on the cheek below the eye, a similar patch on the side of the nose, and a 
narrow blackish-brown streak in the mesial line between the eyes. Five narrow rufous 
lines on the back of the neck, the outermost one passing down over the shoulder and 
being broken up into rufous-brown spots ; a rufous line, more or less distinct, on the 
side of the neck external to the five dorsal lines. A black dorsal line of long hairs 
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from behind the shoulder to the tail, and the rest of the body covered with elongated 
rufous-brown spots, with an intermixture of black. The under surface of the fore 
feet black, and the outer posterior surface of the fore limbs more or less black, with 
greyish hairs intermixed. Plantar surface of the hind feet, heel, and back of thighs 
black. Fronts of the limbs greyish, with a few small black spots on the fore limbs. 
Belly greyish white. Ears nearly white, with a brownish area behind them at their 
bases. Tail with eight black bars alternating with broad pale areas, white at the sides 
and reddish yellow on their dorsal surfaces. The black subterminal band and the tip 
have a few white hairs intermixed. 
Measurements of the skull. 
mm. 
Basal length..81 
Greatest breadth.43 
Palatal length.40 
Breadth between tips of t . 9'5 
„ outside 4 ... 20 
Narrowest interorbital breadth.12 7 
Breadth of brain-case.30 
Length of nasals (middle line).15 3 
Outside length P^- ^ . 9 5 
