C Y N IC T IS
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CYN1CTIS LEPTURUS.—S m it h .
M ammalia.— P la t e XVII.
0. subfulvus, ochreo brunneoque penicillatus; dorso, corporisque lateribus pallide subrufo-tmctis; caudse
supra dimidio ultimo pilis brunneo-annulatis vestito; labiis, mento, caudseque apice subalbis; oculis
rubris; auribus extu^ rubro-brunricis, intus subfulvis; unguibus livido-brunneis.
L ongitudo corporis cum capita 15 u n c .; caudes 9 unc. 3 lin.
Goun; k.—P ale buff-orange, the back and sides, particularly towards the
tail, tinted with Dutch-orange, and very faintly pencilled with cream-yellow
and dusky brown. The back and the sides of the neck are also delicately
pencilled with the same colours, which seems to be produced by many of the
hairs of these parts being ringed with pale brown towards their points. The
first third of the tail above is of the same colour as the hinder part of the
back, the other two-thirds are fulvous, grizzled with dull chesnut-brown,—
the latter being the colour of the middle portion of each hair; the under
surface is pale buff-orange verging to cream-yellow. The sides of the head
and the point of the tail are pale cream-yellow, the former sparingly pencilled
with brown. The lips and chin nearly pure white; the edges and inner
surfaces of the ears are buff-orange, the outer surfaces pale chesnut-brown.
Muzzle, whiskers, and cilise black: eyes red: nails dark horn-coloured.
F okm, &c.—-Typical. Figure rather slender and elegant. Head behind
eyes broad and slightly depressed, before eyes slender and nearly cylindrical;
muzzle naked; nostrils opening laterally; ears short and semicircular, with
the auditory opening protected by a tuft of coarse hair. Tail long, narrow,
slightly flattened, and pointed; nails slender, slightly curved, and channelled
beneath towards their points. Head ornamented with several tufts of long
rigid bristles, one series on each side of the upper lip, a second on each cheek,
a third behind the angles of the mouth, a fourth about midway between the
angles of the mouth at the commencement of the throat, and a fifth over the
inner canthus of each eye. The covering of the animal consists partly of fur
and partly of coarse hair; the fur, except on the tail, predominates, and