VULPES VULPE3, SUBSP. JiGYPTIACA. 
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to the Museum under the name of G. vulpecula, Ehr. It now stands in the Museum 
as “ G. niloticus, Geoff. Ganis vul^ecula, Ehr. Dongola, Hemprich & Ehrenberg.” 
It is a male, and the skull is in the specimen. The hair is rather sparse, and on the 
whole of the upper surface from between the ears to the base of the tail, and on the 
sides as well, the general colour is a cinnamon-red; the colour is much darker on the 
neck, where it is almost black-brown, and is prolonged slightly below on to the throat 
as a collar; the outer surfaces of the sides and limbs are paler. A few straggling 
golden-coloured hairs occur on the back and sides. Behind the shoulders the colour 
is pale yellowish, and on the lower part of the front of both fore and hind feet there 
is an intermixture of dark brown hairs. From the vertex between the ears forwards, 
the top of the head is rather rich rufous yellow, brightest before and around the eyes. 
The upper lip, the lower half of the cheek, the whole of the lower jaw, throat, and sides 
of the neck, chest, and belly, also the inner sides of the limbs and fronts of the thighs, 
white. The lower portion of the tail is concolorous with the back, but on the 
remainder nearly all the long hairs have been lost, and only the uniformly-coloured 
yellowish thickly-matted under-fur remains. The backs of the ears are brownish. The 
animal was evidently changing its coat. 
Type of Canis anuhis, Ehrenberg. Fayum, $ , Hemprich & Ehrenberg. 
A fox evidently changing its coat. Erom between the ears backwards and behind 
the shoulders there is a long, dark cinnamon-brown area of the same character as that 
which occurs in the type of G. sahhar. The under surface of the belly is suffused with 
orange-red, becoming very brilliant chestnut-red in front of the thighs and in the 
middle line between them. From the larynx backwards to the chest the hairs are 
deep chestnut-red. This skin probably shows the commencement of the summer 
pelage, as the fur is evidently thin and sparse. 
Type of C. vulpecula, Ehr. $ juv. Fayum, Hemprich & Ehrenberg. 
Pale yellowish on the sides generally, but on the back with the usual character of 
fur. White below and on the inner sides of the limbs. 
