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Show 1897.] MAMMALS FROM MOROCCO. 957 5. CANIS ANTHUS, F. CUV. o* • Bas el Ain, Haha, 27th June, 1897. Collector's measurements :-Head and body 760 millim.; tail 295 ; hind foot 165 ; ear 100. 6. VULPES ATLANTICA, Wagn. Canis vulpes, var. ailuntlca, A. Wagner, Beisen Begentsch. Algier, v. M. Wagner, Bd. iii. p. 31 (1841). Vulpes sp., F. Cuv. (Eenard d'Alger) Mam. Lith. no. 177, vol. iii. 2 • Bas el Ain, Haha, 20th June, 1897. Head and body 525 millim. ; tail 345; hind foot 118 ; ear 85. The fur of this single specimen is peculiarly free from the grizzling usually found in Foxes ; the fore and hind legs and feet are bright red, with no black markings; the hind feet have a whitish stripe coming from the inner side of the heel and extending down the front of the foot to the toes. The general colour of the animal is bright orange-red, the tips of the underfur being very foxy-red. The belly is clothed with maroon-brown fur- a character, however, which would not be constant. The skull-measurements are :-Extreme length 120 millim., breadth 65, basal length 112, front of canine to back of carnassial 42. The lower jaw shows an extra molar on both sides, that on the left side has two distinct complete crowns. These super-uumerary molars are very rare in the Common Fox, as pointed out by Hensel, Morph. Jahrb. 1879, and Bateson in ' Variation,' p. 219 (1894); there is no instance among the series of V. niloticus in the British Museum. A good figure of the animal is given by F. Cuvier (torn. cit.). 7. GENETTA GENETTA (L.). o*. Bas el Ain, Haha, 4th July, 1897. Head and body 460 millim.; tail 430 ; hind foot 90 ; ear 48. 8. XERUS GETULUS (L.). Fourteen skins with skulls, 9 J , 5 $ , Glarvi, Enzel, Bas el Ain, Haha, and Ecru, from April to July; the first two localities are on the Great Atlas range east of Morocco city, the last two near the coast south of Mogador. A nice series of different ages. In old and young the belly is very thinly clothed with hair. Adult females show the mamniaa very plainly ; these are large and black, all on the belly and groins: thus the formula is 0-4 = 8. The young are darker in colour, showing less brown on the back, with the underparts sooty. The tail is very decidedly distichous ; in the adult there are 4 light rings and 3 black, in the young 3 light and 2 black. The fur is less harsh and brittle than in the typical Xerus, but there is no underfur. There are some interesting peculiarities in the construction of the palate and pterygoids of the young auimal which do not seem |