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not to be worthy of specific rank. The tables I have given of the skull-measurements 
of animals from various parts of Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia show how 
the foxes of these various regions run one into another, and how little, at the same 
time, is the variation observable in the measurements of their skulls, if we except the 
small race found in Kajputana and in the Punjab, 
Since the cusps on the teeth of the Algerian specimen show as yet no signs of wear, 
I judge from this and the general condition of the skull that the animal, had it lived, 
would have attained a greater size. Its skull is only 3 mm. shorter than a male 
skull of the typical Egyptian form from Gizeh ; but its fourth premolar, like that of the 
Tangiers skull, is sensibly smaller than the corresponding tooth in the foxes of Egypt; 
these two specimens in the size of their teeth resembling the fox of Genoa. 
The great variation in size which occurs among the foxes of Lower Egypt, even in 
very restricted areas, is seen by contrasting the large female skull from Bedrashen, 
near Sakkarah, with the other female skull from Gizeh. 
VuLPES VULPES, subsp. a;gyptiaca, Sonn. (Plate XXXII.) 
Cams agyptius, Desmar. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. xxiv. Tab, Meth. 1804, p. 18, nom. nud. 
Cams (sgyptiacus, Sonnini, Nouv. Diet. vi. 1816, p. 524. 
Cams vulpes, Geoffr. & Audouin, Deser. de PEgypte, Hist, Nat. vol. ii. 1818, p. 749. 
Cams niloticus aut cegyptiacus, Desmar. Mamm. 1820, p. 204. 
Cams niloticus, Cretzsehm. Eiipp. Atlas, 1826, p. 41, pi. 15 ; Hempr. & Ebrenb, Symb. Phys., 
Mamm. dee. ii. 1832. 
Canis vulpecula, C, anuhis, C. sabhar, Hempr. & Ebrenb. loe. eit. 
Vulpes niloticus, Smith (H.), Jardine^s Nat, Libr. x. 1840, p. 248, pi. xxi*. 
Canis vulpes cegyptiacus, de Winton, Proe. Zool. Soe. 1899, p. 543. 
2 $ . Kafr Amar. 20.2.93. 
1 ? . Bedrashen. 4.3.93. 
1 S’ Margin of desert, Bedrashen. 5.3.93. 
Payum. Messrs. Andrews and Beadnell. 
Upper surface greyish yellow, the back with a broad longitudinal mesial line from 
the head to the base of the tail. This line is more or less of a rusty red, or almost 
chestnut colour, but it merges, on its borders, with the greyish yellow external to it. 
On the whole of the upper surface, dorsal stripe included, the long hairs have subapical 
greyish-yellow bands, which give a variegated appearance to the fur. The short wavy 
under-fur is dark purplish or brownish red in its lower part, passing to rusty red at 
the tips, and, as this shows through the long hair, there is a more or less rusty tint 
added to the greyish yellow. The area above, below, in front of, and behind the eyes 
is rich rufous brown, but the margin of the mouth above and below and the chin are 
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