4 . C a n is A z a r æ .
Canis Azaræ, P r . M axim ilian, Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte Brazilicus, vol. ii. p. 338.
Agimarachay, A sa ra, Essais sur l'histoire naturelle des Quadrupèdes de la Province du Paraguay,
torn. i. p. 317.
C. suprà aïbo nigroque variegatus; lateribus cinerescentibus ; capite, auribus externé,
artubusque, cinereo-ciniiamominis; -mento nigro ; tibiis externis ad basin nigro
lavatis; caudâ albescente, suprà nigro variegata, ad apicem nigrâ; spatio pone
ángulos oris, gutture, corporeque subtùs albescentihus ; fasciis duabus griscescenti-
bus in pectore plus miimsve distinctis.
D e s c r ip t io n .—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 buff 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 hand 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 part 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