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Show 14 ZOOLOGY OF TilE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE. 4. CANIS AzARJE. PLATE VII. Canis Azarre, Pr. !lfa:vimilian, Bcitragc zur Naturgcschichto Brazilians, vol. ii. p. 338. Agouarachay, Azam, Essais sur l'histoiro naturolle des Quadrupedos do la Province du Paraguay, tom. i. p. 317. C. supra albo nigroque vm·iegatus ; lateribus cinerescentibus ; C{tpile, au1·ibus externe, m·tubusqtte, cinereo-cinnamominis; mento nig1·o ,· tibiis extentis ad basin nig1·o lavalis ; cauda albescente, supra nig1·o variegatti, ad apicern nigdt; spatia pone angulos oris, guUure, corporeqtte subtus albescentibus; fasciis duabus gTiscescentibus in pectore plus minusve distinctis. DEsCRIPTION.-Compared with the common fox (Canis Vulpes, Auct.), the present animal is rather smaller, and of a more slender form. Its limbs are a little longer in proportion; the ears are not so broad. The tail is not quite so bushy, neither is it so long; the fur is much longer, and of a harsher nature. The predominant colours of the body are black and white; the limbs are of a fulvous hue externally. The hairs on the under part of the feet are dirty brown; the fore part of the anterior legs, and the feet, are of a huff colour; on the former, the hairs are more or less distinctly tipped with black, which produces a grizzled appearance. The inner side of the fore legs is of an uniform pale buff colour; the hinder part of these legs, the fore part of the posterior legs, and the inner side of the thighs, are white. On the outer side of the hinder legs, at some little distance above the heel, is a large blackish patch. The under parts of the body are of a dirty white hue, arising from the hairs being dusky or brownish at the base, and tipped with white, as on the fore part of the belly, or of a pale buff colour at the base, as towards the rump. The edge of the upper lip, the throat, neck, and chest, are white; a broad grayish band extends across the latter, and another of a paler hue crosses the lower part of the neck. The chin is black, and this colour is extended backwards around the angle of the mouth. The upper pal't of the head is of a pale yellow-brown colour, each hair being annulated with white near the apex. The ears are furnished with white hairs internally, and externally they are of a yellowish brown colour, tipped with black; at the base of the ears, and the portion of the neck on each side nearest to them, the |