. Catalogue of carnivorous, pachydermatous, and edentate Mammalia in the British museum. Mammals. 208 CANID^. Caais caama, A. Smith,-South African Quart. Journ. Vulpes caama, Gerrard, Cat. of Somes of Mamm. p. 87. Rab. South Africa {lir. A. Smith). The skull 815 a iu the British Museum, out of this skin, is very like that of Urocyon virginianus in the form of the crown-plate, hut it differs from that skull in the bullae of the ear-bones being longer, more ventricose and rounded, and ia the last upper tuber- cular grinder being small and more triangular, narrower on the inner edge. Fig. Sk
. Catalogue of carnivorous, pachydermatous, and edentate Mammalia in the British museum. Mammals. 208 CANID^. Caais caama, A. Smith,-South African Quart. Journ. Vulpes caama, Gerrard, Cat. of Somes of Mamm. p. 87. Rab. South Africa {lir. A. Smith). The skull 815 a iu the British Museum, out of this skin, is very like that of Urocyon virginianus in the form of the crown-plate, hut it differs from that skull in the bullae of the ear-bones being longer, more ventricose and rounded, and ia the last upper tuber- cular grinder being small and more triangular, narrower on the inner edge. Fig. Skull of Fenneeus caama. (South Africa, No. 815 a.) 14. LEUCOCYON. Tail very full and bushy; soles of feet densely furred. Fur, of the adult, white ; of the young, greyish lead-colour. Pupil oblong, erect. SkuU short; nose broad below the orbits, Leucocyon, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 521. Leucocyon lagopus. £.M. Canis lagopus, lAnn. Fauna Suec. p. 4; S. N. i. p. 59; Pallas, Zoog. Posso-Asiat. i. p. 61, t. 5 ; Tiiesius, Nov. Acta Acad. Nat. Our. xi. p. 375, t. 47; Blainv. OsUogr. t. 5 (skull). Oania (Vulpes) lagopus, JRicA. F. i. p. 83, 1829. Vulpes lagopus, Avd. Sr Pack. N. A. Quad. ii. p. 89, t. 121,1829; Gray, List Mamm. P. Jf. p. 60; Gmrard, Cat. of Pones of Mamm. p. 88. Leucocyon lagopus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 621. Renard blanc, 5««^ore, -HI N. Sitppl. vii. t. 51. Arctic Fox, Pennant, Shaw. (SkuUs 780 a, c, d.) Junior ? Sooty black. Skull shorter and broader. Canis fuliginosus, Shaw, Zool. i. p. 361. (Skulls 1316 a, h, c.) Sooty Fox, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875. London, Printed by order of the Trustees
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