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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
fmall, its alveolar length being but little greater than that of the first molar, while the 
second molar is but little inferior to the first in length, and fully half as large on 
the masticatory surface. 
Measurements of skull of a specimen collected by Messrs. Eothschild and Wollaston, 
cJ. Shendi. 
Brit. Mus. Yo. 1.5.5.18. 
Basal length . . . . . 
Palatal length. 
Greatest breadth . . . . 
Cranial breadth. 
Palatal breadth outside P™s. 4 
Lachrymal fossa to front of premaxilla 
Alveolar length of P™ - 4 . 
mm. 
90 
56-5 
51 
35 
32-3 
28-6 
32 
8 5 
5 
4 
This species ranges over Tropical Africa and into Arabia. The Dongola district is 
the only locality within our area in which it occurs. —W. E. de W.] 
Dr. Anderson had the following notes on specimens in the Frankfort Museum :— 
Herpestes albicauda, Cuv.; leucurus, Ehrenb. ? . Nubia. Dr. E. Riippell. 
This specimen is a pale sandy colour, palest below, with a mixture above ot longer, 
broadly blackish-brown-tipped hairs on the trunk, many of them with a subapical 
white band. Head paler than the body. Fore limbs rusty brownish from the elbow 
downwards, dark rusty brown on the metacarpal area. Hind limbs rusty brown, darkest 
on the tarsus. Tail brown and white in its proximal half, white in its distal half. 
The skull is in the specimen. 
THITl. 
Snout to vent."140 
Vent to tip of tail, without terminal hairs .... 340 
Herpestes albicauda, Cuv., var. nigricauda, Puch. ? . Nubia, Ambukol. Dr. Ruppell, 1824. 
This specimen, although its tail is blackish brown throughout, is unquestionably 
specifically identical with the foregoing. Unlike it, the body is throughout brownish, 
owing to the prevalence of black-tipped hairs, which are well seen in this specimen 
with its much more pronounced colouring ; for besides the apical black band there is 
a white band below it, followed by a second black baud, and then by the pale basal 
portion of the hair. The subapical white band confers on this specimen a white 
