The survey of western Palestine. The fauna and flora of Palestine (1884) (14773836424)

Syian coney, Hyrax syriacus, Hemp. and Ehr. Arab: Tubsun, or el Wabr (in Sinai).
Identifier: surveyofwesternp00tris (find matches)
Title: The survey of western Palestine. The fauna and flora of Palestine
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Tristram, H. B. (Henry Baker), 1822-1906
Subjects: Animals -- Palestine Plants -- Palestine
Publisher: London, The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden



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o o-*- MAMMALIA. ORDER, PACHYDERMATA. FAMILY, HYRACID.E.I. Hyrax Syriacns. Hemp, and Ehr. Symb. Phys. Mamm. PI. 2.Coney. Heb. 1S^. Arab, .^y^, Tubsiiu, or y.y^, cl JVabr (in Sinai). Plate I.This singular little Mammal, neither ruminant nor rodent, but whichis placed by systematists among the Ungiilaia, near the Rhinoceros, is oneof the many peculiarly African forms which occur in Palestine. It is notuncommon round the shores of the Dead Sea, but is rare in the rest ofthe country, and not known in Lebanon. It is found throughout theSinaitic Peninsula generally, but is not known to extend further intoArabia or Western Asia. It is represented by a very closely allied speciesin Abyssinia, and by another rather larger at the Cape. Several species,or varieties, occur in Eastern Africa, but this is the only one knownbeyond the limits of that continent. Its Hebrew name means thehider, and its timid, cautious habits, and defenceless charasurveyofwesternp00tris