CYNICTIS OGILBYIL—S m it h .
M amma lia.— P la t e XVI.—M a l e .
C. supra ochreo-flavus, nigro-brunneo alboque sordido penicillatus; infra sublactifloris; mento gul&que
ad album transientibus; cauda patula fortiter depressê. et ferè distichd, apice acuto, albo; auribus
externe rubro-brunneis, interne subalbis; oculis rubris; unguibus livido-brunneis, versus apices
pallidis.
Longitudo corporis cum capite 15 unG; caudee, 9^ unc.
C o lo u r .— The upper and lateral parts of thé head, neck, body, and tail, and
the outer surfaces of the thighs ochre-yellow, ffeely and delicately pencilled
with blackish brown and dirty white. The latter colours are all that exist to
produce variegations on the parts mentioned, and both occur upon each hair,
—the dirty white at the point, and the blackish brown some short distance
behind it. On the hinder part of the back and upper aspect of the tail, the
blackish brown is most strongly displayed, and produces on both an irregular,
chequered, or brindled appearance. The under parts of the neck, body, and
tail, as also the tip of the latter, and the parts of the extremities not already
mentioned, dull cream-yellow; the- chin, upper part of the throat, arid lips,
towards the angles of the mouth, dusky white. The hair and fur of the head
and body towards the skin, a rusty slate colour. Ears externally rich reddish
brown, internally dirty white. Muzzle black; eyes red; nails livid
brown toward their bases, light horn-coloured at the points ; soles of the feet
brownish red.
F orm, &cBBody rather slender; extremities delicate; tail narrow, sub-
cylindrical, and tapering to the point, in which particulars it exhibits a
greater resemblance to Herpestes than Cynictis. The hairy covering is of
two descriptions, fur and hair; the fur constitutes a considerable proportion
of the covering of the head, body, and extremities, but is entirely wanting on
the tail; it is shorter than the hair, and is only to be seen distinctly by separating
the latter'. The hair is long on the back, thighs, and tail, where it
gives rise to a shaggy appearance; it is every where rigid, on the body
strongly recumbent, and on the tail divergent, thereby giving to the latter a
somewhat distichous form. It is in the hairy portion of the covering that
the diversity of colours occur, and which produce the brindled appearance