242 Mr. O. Thomas on the Rana papua, part., Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Ecaud. p. 64 (1882) ; Rous, Abb. Senck. Ges. xxxiii. 1910, p. 224. Rana arfaki, part,, vau Karapeu, Bijdr. Dierk. xix. 1913, p. 90. Ranafallax, van Kanipen, Nuva Guinea, ix., Zool. p. 459 (1913). Hab. New Guinea and neighbouring islands (Waigeou [type], Aru, Kei, Timor Laut, Fergusson, Murray, &c). I am unable to express an opinion on the specimens from Jobi, referred to this species by Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. xliv. 1912, p. 65, pi. v. fig. 15, in which the male is provided with a humeral gland. 9. Rana daemcli. Hylorana erythrcea, part., Giintb. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xx. 1867, p. 56. Hylorana daemeli, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, lvii, i. 1868, p. 532, pi. — . Hylorana ncbulosa, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. ii. 1877, p. 137. Rana papua, part., Bouleng. Cat. Batr. Ecaud. p. 64 (1882), and Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.. (5) xvi. 1885, p. 387 ; Roux, Abb. Senck. Ges. xsxiii. 1910, p. 224. Hyla nobilb, De Yis, Proc. P. Soc. Queensl. i. 1884, p. 129. Rana daemeli, Garnian, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. xxxix. 1901, p. 14 ; Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xx. 191 4 ; p. 250. Rana nova-c/uinea, van Kanipen, Nova Guinea, ix., Zool. p. 37, pi. ii. fig. 5 (1909), and p. 459 (1913). Hab. Northern Queensland (type) and New Guinea. XXVII. — Some Notes on the small Sand-Foxes of North Africa. By Olufield Thomas. (Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) While attempting to determine a small fox from Nigeria presented some years ago to the National Museum by Mr. (now Sir John) Eaglesome, I have come upon certain points in the nomenclature and relationships of what Mr. de Winton * has called the "sand-foxes" which it seems advisable to record for the saving o£ future trouble. The species dealt with are three in number — namely, the widely distributed animal usually known as Vulpes famelica, the smaller Y. pallida of the Egyptian Soudan, and the true Fennec. * P. Z. S. 1899, p. 544.
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