PUTOEIUS AFEICANUS. 
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MUSTELIDiE. 
Subfamily MUSTELINE. 
PUTOEIUS. 
Putorius, Cuvier, E^g. Anim. vol. i. 1817, p. 147. 
Size small. Form very long and slender, limbs very short. Upper surface of the 
body not striped. 
Dentition : i. c. j, pm. m. ^ = 34. 
PuTOKius AFEICANUS, Desm. (Plate XXXVI.) 
Mustela africana, Desm. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. 1818, xix. p. 376. 
Mustela subpalmata, Hempr. & Ehrenb. Symb. Phys. 1832, dec. ii. 
Mustela vulgaris, Eiipp. Neue Wirbelth., Saug. 1836, p. 35, 
Putorius africanus, Thomas, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 128. 
Mustela boccamela, Sundev. K. Vet.-Ak. Hand!. 1842, p. 215. 
d' ad. Old Cairo. Mr. J. E. Gibson. 24.2.94 (figured), 
ad. Cairo. 
Head small, oval, not nearly so broad across the malar arches as in the South European 
weasel. The upper border of the ear nearly straight and the posterior border much 
the same and of much the same length and directed obliquely downwards and forwards, 
the tip between the two borders rounded. In a Sardinian specimen the upper 
border of the ear is longer than the posterior border and slightly convex, while the 
posterior border is considerably rounded. The colour, brown above and white below, 
with one or more brown spots behind the chin or further back, the chin being white. 
A little white about the toes. The tip of the tail darker than the rest of the body. 
Cairo. 
t -*-- 
6 . 6 . 
mm. mm. 
Snout to vent . 270 260 
Vent to tip of tail, without hair . . . 115 108 
Snout to eye ... • lb 
Eye to ear.. 15 ... 
Height of ear .. 21’5 21 
Length of tarsus, without claws... 48 47 
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