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THE MAMMALS OE EGYPT. 
Hyrax habessinicus, Ehrenberg. Abyssinia, Ebrenberg and Hempricb. Marked meaning that 
it is tbe type. No. 1989. 
The hair is speckled grey and brownish, and very markedly so, quite distinct from 
that of P. ruficeps. The general length of the fur in the type is about 24 mm., but 
some hairs are longer. The basal portion of the hair is very pale yellowish brown ; 
the darkest portion of each hair is the dark brown band that succeeds the basal 
portion, which is the reverse of what obtains in P. rwficeps, where the basal portion of 
the hair is the darkest. This dark brown band is succeeded by a bright yellowish- 
grey narrow band, followed by a narrow dark brown tip. The dorsum of the head is 
somewhat darker than the rest of the body. The under parts are greyish yellow. 
The dorsal glandular area is short and badly defined. The hairs covering it 
are very deep dark brown throughout the greater part of their extent, with a yellow 
subapical band and a black tip. 
In a second and larger example from Abyssinia, total length 410 mm., the general 
tint is a dark brown, finely speckled with yellowish. The hairs generally in this 
specimen are coloured like those of the glandular area of the type, but the hairs of the 
dorsal glandular area are blackish brown. 
In the same Museum there is a fine adult skull, s (7079), from Sinai, referred to 
P. syriaca. Its teeth gradually increase in size from before backwards. The upper 
dental line measures 37 mm., the lower 38. In the skull of the type of P. syriaca 
the upper dental line, with the last molar not quite through, measures 37 mm.; the 
lower dental line, with the last molar quite through, measures 38 mm. 
Adult Sinai skull. 
mm. 
Length of last upper molar. 8 5 
„ penultimate upper molar. 7 
„ last lower molar. 8 
„ penultimate lower molar. 7 
Frankfort Museum. 
Hyrax daman, G. Cuv.=P‘. syriacus, Schreb. “ Der Klippschliefer.^^ Icon. Ehr. Symb. Mamm. 
t. 2. Sinai, Dr. Ruppell, 1822. 
The skull is in this specimen. 
The colour is uniform pale sandy, darker on the back, and paler on the under 
parts and sides of head. The long scattered bristle-like hairs are stronger and more 
numerous on the rump. The feet are greyish yellow, and the tarsus is about 65 mm. 
in length. It is distinguished from all the foregoing Hyraces by the smaller, 
rounded ears. 
