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THE MAMMALS OE EGYPT. 
Dr. Anderson made the following note on Cretzschmar’s type of the species, preserved 
in the Frankfort Museum :— 
“ c?. Nubia. Huppell, 1823. (Type.) 
“ This specimen is now pale yellowish fawn above, paling on the sides of the body 
and below into white, with a faint yellowish tinge. Limbs pale fawn in front, whitish 
behind; the feet-brushes rich rusty yellow. Sides of the head, before and below the 
eye, whitish, but in the latter situation marked with pale fawn ; the sides of the neck 
behind the bases of the ears nearly white. Ears semi-nude behind, the apical margin 
densely clad with brownish-yellow soft hair, their inner margin fringed with a line of 
rather long, upwardly-directed white hairs ; outer margin with soft, short, brownish- 
yellow hairs; whiskers dark brown, the longest with a subapical broad yellowish band. 
Tail marked on the upper surface with brownish. 
“ The hair generally is pale fawny white in the basal half, yellowish fawn in the 
terminal half, becoming paler at the extremities in the great mass of instances, but 
with an intermixture of hairs ending in black tips of varying extent and intensity, 
but never to such an extent as to interfere with the uniform yellow-fawn colour of the 
entire upper surface.” 
Lepusy species ? 
§ . Shot in desert hills east of Ain Musa. 20.3.93. 
mm. 
Snout to vent.. 492 
Height of ear from behind.145 
„ ,y lower margin of external meatus.110 
Length of hind foot...113 
„ tail, without hair. 63 
The skin of the specimen from which these measurements were taken is in a very 
bad state of preservation and the skull is wanting. It is a very pale-coloured animal, 
and may possibly be referable to L. rothschildi. It certainly does not belong to the 
species recorded from the Sinaitic Peninsula or from Syria by Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 
a description of the types of which Dr. Anderson gives as follows :— 
“ Berlin Museum. 
" Lepus sinaiticus, Ehr. (Type.) 
Mount Sinai. No. 896. Skull in specimen. 
mm. 
Snout to vent, approximately.410 
Vent to tip of tail.. . . . 90 
Height of ear.120 
Breadth of ear. 75 
