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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
The Ard Wolf lives in burrows in pairs. The natives apply to it the name ‘ Deeb.’ 
[The skull is not powerful, rather flat, with large and very broad facial portion. The 
incisors and canines are moderately developed; the second preniolar is the largest and 
most strongly rooted of the upper cheek-teeth ; the last tooth in the row is the fourth 
premolar or carnassial, this tooth is simple and merely vestigial, being usually lost soon 
after the animal is adult. In the milk-dentition the carnassial is still a three-rooted 
tooth, although much reduced in size. In the lower jaw there is a considerable 
distance between the canine and the first premolar ; this latter tooth is strongly rooted 
and larger than the teeth behind it; the first lower molar, corresponding to the 
carnassial, is exceedingly minute and is lost at an early age. In the milk-dentition 
the three premolars are double-rooted teeth. 
Til e occurrence of this animal in North-east Africa does not seem to have been 
noticed by any of the early travellers. Heuglin (Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. 1877, p. 61) casually 
mentions, when speaking of the Spotted Hyaena : “ Im abessinischen Kiistenland und 
in der Gegend von Adowa sollen sich noch zwei weitere hierher gehorige Arten finden, 
cine kleine, gestreifte (ob Froteles lalandei V} und eine sehr grosse, dicht und lang 
behaarte {Hycena fusca 1). Froteles lalandei findet sich auch am Weissen Nil.” 
The range of this animal is the eastern side of the African continent practically 
from north to south. It lives in holes and feeds on refuse and insects. 
Major Fenton says that sometimes they utter plaintive cries at repeated intervals 
throughout the whole night. 
The Plate was drawn from an animal living in the Zoological Gardens in London. 
-W. E. DE W.] 
