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Show ISf)8-] ««*• J- E. GRAY ON THE CANID.E. 11. VULPES JAPONICA. Skull-crown-plate elongate, slender, tapering behind to the put (adult). s Vulpes japonicus, Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. 86. Hab. Japan. Skull 180 a. Length 5 inches, width 2\. Fig. 6. 517 B.M. occi- Skull of Vulpes bengalensis. (India, No. 174 bi) 12. VULPES BENGALENSIS. Kokree. (Fig. 6.) B.M. Skull-crown-plate wide towards the occiput, vase-shaped. Canis bengalensis, Shaw, Zool. i. 230. G. rufescens, Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. ii. t. 3. C. kokree, Sykes,"P. Z. S. i. 101. C. cor sac, Blyth. Vulpes cor sac, Ogilby, P. Z. S. V. indicus, Hodgson. V. bengalensis, Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. ii. t. 2; Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. 86. Bengal Dog, Penn. Quad. i. 160. Var. Canis xanthurus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 68. C. chrysurus, Gray, Mag. N. H. 1836, p. 577. Hab. India, Bengal. Skulls 174 a-f. Length 4| inches, width 2\. 13. VULPES PUSILLA. Small Fox. Vulpes pusilla, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xxiii. p. 729. Hab. Punjab. 14. VULPES KARAGAN. Karagan. " Larger than the Corsac." Canis karagan, Erxl. Syst. 556. PROC. ZOOL. Soc -1868, No. XXXIV. |