backwards toward the tail, which extends along the middle of the membrane.
Hinder feet, small, slender, and superiorly thinly sprinkled with short hair ;
the claws rather long, moderately strong, and not much curved. Thumb
about two lines long, and very slender, the claw short, slightly curved and
pointed. The first finger reaches to the distal end of the second joint of the
second finger, the fourth, and the membrane connected with it at its point
form a prominent semicircular or subtriangular projection, which extends considerably
beyond any other part of the hinder edge of the wings. The ears,
externally, are thinly covered with short hair. The face, head, neck, back,
breast, and belly, with rather long and frizzy hair, much resembling wool.
The base of the interfemoral membrane superiorly, with a thin sprinkling
of short hair of the same description ; hinder edges of membrane fringed with
very short, rather rigid hair.
DIMENSIONS.
Length from the nose to the base of
the tail.................................... 2 3
of the tail..................................... \ (j
of the head ................................ 0 7
Expanse of the wings............................ 9 10
In. Lines.
Length of the anti-brachium .......,....... 1 4i
of the first joint of first finger... 1 2^
second finger 1 2 a
third finger 1 2-|.
fourth finger 1 2£
In respect of colours, the male and female of this species are nearly alike.
The only specimens I obtained were killed in a wooded district stretching along the
sea-shore, about two hundred miles to the eastward o f Cape Town. Like other’ species
of the genus, it appears as night sets in, and may then be seen flitting from spot to spot
along the open spaces which exist here and there in different parts of the forest.
M AM M
PL.
Aigoceros equina . . . . .
Boselapus Oreas, male . . . .
--------- — — female . . . .
Bubalus Caama . . . . .
--------- lunatus . . .
Catoblepas Taurina . . . .
Cephalopus Natalensis . . . .
ChrySochloris villosa . . . .
Cynictis Ogilbyii . . . . .
----- ------- lepturus . . . .
Damalis (Strepsiceros) Capensis, male
— — --------------------- ----------- female .
Dendromys typicus . . . . .
------- melanotis . . . .
Dysopes Natalensis . . . . .
Erinaceus frontalis . . . .
Euryotis irroratus . . .
--------- unisulcatus . . . .
---------Brantsii . . . . .
• ■ - ■ Anatomy of . . .
Galago Moholi- .
---------Anatomy of . . .
Gerbillus auricularis..
---------A f e r .........................................
---------montanus . . . . .
■' -------tenuis ,. . . . . .
Graphiurus Capensis . . . .
Herpestes badius . . . . .
Hippotamus amphibius . . . .
Kobus ellipsiprymnus, male .
. — IN D E X .
PLATE
Kobus ellipsiprymnus female . 29
Macroscelides typicus 10
-------------------rupestris;. . . 11
------------------ Intufi 12
------------------- brachyrynchus . 13
-------------------Edwardii 14
-------------------(Anatomy of) . . 15
Manis Temminckii 7
Miniopterus dasythrix . 52
Mus pumilio . . . . 46
------dorsalis . . . . . 46
------ Lehocla . . . . 47
------Natalensis . 47
------Colonus . . . . 47
Otomys albicaudatus . 33
Petromys typicus . . . . 20
------------ (Anatomy of) . . . . 21
Pteropus Leachii . . . . 48
Rhinoceros Keitloa . . . 1
--------------- bicornis 2
■—------simus . 19
Sciurus Cepapi . . . . 5
Scotophilus Dinganii . 5 3
Sorex. Mariquensis . 44
• varius . . . . • 44
— — Capensis . . . . 45
------flavescens . 45
Vespertilio lanosus 50
:------------minutus . . 51
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jATR
27
40
41
30
31
38
32
9
16
17
42
43
34éfo
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49
: 3
22
23
24
25
8
8
26
35
36
36
39
4
6
28
Plates 18 and 37 not published*