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jackal is not, as has been generally supposed, identical with the true Cards anthus, 
F. Cuv., from Senegal, and in a P.S. p. 537 notice was given of the error of the prevalent 
opinion. There is no doubt that this view was correct, and further that a small jackal 
[C. aureus tri'polUanus^'WdigReT, Schreb. Saiig. Suppl. ii. p. 393), closely resembling true 
C. anthus^ occurs in Tripoli. Another question which will have to be settled is, what is 
the typical form of C. aureus, Linn. 1 the Eastern European form may be known as 
C. aureus grcecus, Wagn., the Syrian form as C. aureus syriacus, Hempr. & E., and the 
Indian as C. aureus indicus, Hodgson. In the meantime it is quite clear that Cards 
lupasteriB the name which must be applied to the Egyptian jackal, and the large jackal 
found in Tunis undoubtedly belongs to the same species. 
It is pretty evident that the jackal of the Sudan, in the neighbourhood of Khartum, 
is quite distinct from Canis varieyatus, Cretzschm. ; this Sudan species was also 
obtained by Riippell and figured by Cretzschmar under the name of C. anthus, F. Cuv., 
a determination which appears to be correct, as, judging from a specimen from 
Omdurman in the British Museum recently presented by Capt. H. N. Dunn, there 
seems to be no material difference between this and the typical form from Senegal. — 
W. E. DE W.] 
Canis LUPASTEE, Ehrenb. (Plate XXX.) 
Cams lupaster, Hemp. & Ehrenb. Symb. Phys., Mamm. dec. ii. 1832. 
Canis sacer, Hemp. & Ehrenb. Syrab. Phys., Mamm. dee. ii. 1832. 
Lupus anthus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 502, skull (nee Cuvier). 
Die.ba anthus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus. 1869, p. 189. 
Canis aureus, auct. (partim), nee Linn. 
Canis anthus, Mivart, Canidse, 1890, p. 41, pi. (partim), skull, fig. 20; de Wiuton, Px’oc. Zool. Soc. 
1899, p. 535 (partim). 
Gizeh, December 22, 1891. Winter pelage. 
Eayum. Several specimens, Messrs. Andrews & Beadnell. 
The general colour is yellowish grey on the body, rather rufous yellow on the upper 
surface of the head from before the eyes to the nose, on the back of the ears, between 
the ears above, and on the outsides and fronts of the limbs. The margins of the 
mouth, below the rufous areas anterior to the eyes, are greyish white. The forehead 
has the hair deep brownish black in its lower two-thirds, but so broadly banded with 
yellow below its black tips that the dark basal colour is completely obscured, and 
this part of the head has a yellowish appearance speckled with black. Behind the 
vertex the bases of the hairs become very pale grey, the yellow bands extremely broad, 
and the black tips more conspicuous, so that the yellow is speckled with black, and as 
the black tips become massed together in places the yellow pelage has the appearance 
