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THE MAMMALS OE EGYPT. 
dirty white. The ears are blackish brown behind and yellowish white in front. The 
sides of the body and of the belly are pale yellowish, Avith the straggling long hairs 
yellow-banded and black-tipped. The throat, chest, and centre of the belly are purple- 
blackish, but the hairs are occasionally yellow-tipped. The limbs are rather rufous 
externally, paler on the inner side, and there is generally an irregular dark band down 
the front of the fore limb. The tail is rufous or rusty yellow, sometimes washed with 
black, and with a white tip. 
In some specimens the black of the under parts is only feebly developed, and the 
sides of the throat and belly are whitish, the abdomen itself being yellowish. 
In the adult male from Bedrashen, from which the Plate was coloured, the back of 
the ears, the throat, and belly are deep black, but on the lower part of the neck a few 
white hairs are intermixed. The chin to behind the angle of the mouth and the 
upper lips are greyish white. The muzzle below the eyes and the front of the head 
are rufous yelloAV, with the usual yellowish tips to the hairs, but the occipital region 
is bright rufous. There is a darkish area behind the eye, and the conches of the 
ears are yellowish white. There is a decided rufous area down the middle of the 
back, the shoulders are greyish yellow, and a blackish area runs down the middle of the 
front of the fore limbs, and there is a slight amount of black on the front of the tarsus. 
All the females have black on the under parts as in the male, but not nearly so dark, 
and their heads vary much in colour, one being very pale yellow on the upper surface, 
whilst it is darker in the others. 
[The cubs of this species are uniform pale buff-fawn in colour; there is only very 
slight indication of black on the backs of the ears. When about half-grown the legs, 
face, and back become more rufous, the annulated coarser body-hairs begin to appear, 
the backs of the ears become mixed with black, and the under parts more pure white. 
The black fur on the belly seems to be a character which is not developed till 
maturity. 
Major Hodgson has sent the mask of a specimen of this fox from Dongola, 
where, for a season or two, hunting was obtained by the British officers, but the 
hounds have since all succumbed to the heat. 
Messrs. Bothschild and W^ollaston obtained specimens at Shendi in 1901; this is 
the most southerly point from which the Bed Fox has been recorded. 
In Egypt this species appears to be confined to the Nile Valley.—W. E. de W.] 
azotes on type specimens in the Berlin Museum collected hy Remprich and Ehrenherg, 
all referable to the Bed Fox of the Nile Valley. 
Type of Canis sabbar, H. & Ehr. S • Dongola, Hemprich & Ehrenberg. 
Mr. Matschie informs me that this is the type of C. sahbar, H. & E., which was sent 
