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THE MAMMALS OF EOAPT. 
has very short bright red ears, and the rufous colouring on the legs very brilliant. A 
skin from near Jaffa has longer ears (but pale yellow) and longer legs than in 
the previous specimen. The latter is not C. lupaster, but another form, the 
C. syriacus, Ehr. 
In the Zoological Gardens of Berlin there are two living jackals from Dalmatia, 
very brilliantly coloured, and with considerably longer ears than typical C. aureus^ and 
longer than those of the Syrian jackal. This Dalmatian jackal presents certain of the 
characters of the C. tripolitanus, Wagner, and others of C. lupaster. 
Paris Museum. 
In this Museum there is a female labelled “ Canis anthus (F. Cuv.), M. Ferdinand, 
Senegal,” while on the under surface of the stand there is in ink “ Du Senegal 
I’envoyee par M. Ferdinand, fevrier, 1826. 283 femelle, Canis anthus (F. Cuv.),” and 
some one has written in pencil “ Type.” 
The specimens in the Paris Museum which constitute the types of species are 
almost invariably so marked on the label ; but this is not the case in the specimen 
in question. Moreover, the date is sutScient to disprove its claim to that distinction. 
M. Ferdinand’s The tj^pe measured, 
specimen. June 1820. 
mm. mm. 
Snout to vent. 690 528 
Vent to tip of tail (without terminal hair). 220 254 
Height at shoulder. 400 381 
The ears are broken at the tips, but they are 80 mm. high in front and 100 behind. 
It is not a long-legged form like C. variegaUis, but has more of the character of the 
jackal of Tripoli. The upper surface of the muzzle before the eyes is rather rich 
yellowish fawn, a pale tint of which extends below the eyes. Behind the nose, along the 
upper lip, the chin, and the throat are nearly white. The cheeks are yellowish white. 
The ears are rufous behind. On the upper surface of the back to behind the shoulder 
the hair is long, with the apical black band and also the subapical yellow band 
broad, and as both bands are more or less visible this surface is blotched, so to speak, 
with yellow and black, much the same as in C. variegatus. The rest of the body 
is pale, speckled greyish yellow and black. The limbs are yellowish externally, this 
colour being most intense on the lower part of the outside of the thighs. The tail 
has rather short hair, and is variegated with yellowish and blackish, the tips being 
black, but only very narrowly so. 
[Before the publication of my paper on the African Dogs in the ‘ Proceedings of 
the Zoological Society,’ 1899, 1 had come to the conclusion that the large Egyptian 
