Of this beautiful species the late Dr. Anderson, in his ‘Zoology of Egypt,’ wrote: “There is no authentic record of the Fennec having been discovered in a wild state by any European traveller. All the specimens which have been brought home have been obtained from Arabs.” This fox is, it is true, a very shy animal, so much so that during the course of many years’ work in almost every part of the Libyan Desert I never had the good fortune to observe one in its natural haunts, though its burrows were often met with, and my men at night occasionally succeeded in securing specimens in traps. During the last year or two, however, while resident in Kharga Oasis, I have been more fortunate, having frequently observed these interesting little animals sitting near the entrances to their burrows or sniffing about in search of food on areas sparsely dotted with desert vegetation. Several pairs had burrows within a few kilometres of my headquarters, and were, I believe, responsible for fowls that disappeared from time to time from our farm-yard. Mr. P. von Adametz kept one of these tiny foxes in the mess for some time, but this particular animal, which had been caught in the neighbourhood of Meheriq, was evidently too old to become tame. Fennecs probably subsist mainly on desert gerbils and jerboas, which are always to be found in large numbers in those portions of the desert where vegetation is at all plentiful. LITERATURE ON THE OASIS OF KHARGA PONCET, M. 1709. “A Voyage to Æthiopia, made in the Years 1698, 1699, and 1700.” (Translated from the French.) Printed for W. Lewis at the Dolphin, next Tom’s Coffee House, in Russel Street, Covent Garden, London, 1709. BROWNE, W. G. 1806. “Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the Year 1792 to 1798.” Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London, 1806. CAILLIAUD, F. 1822. “Travels in the Oasis of Thebes, and in the Deserts situated East and West of the Thebaid, in the Years 1815, 1816, 1817, and 1818.” (Translated from the French, and published in New Voyages and Travels, vol. vii.) Sir Richard Phillips and Co., London, 1822. DROVETTI, M. THE CHEVALIER. 1822. “Itinerary of an Excursion to the Valley of Dakel,” by M. the Chevalier Drovetti, French Consul-General in Egypt, about the latter end of 1818, with a previous Itinerary from Syout to Dongolah and Darfour. In New Voyages and Travels, vol. vii. Sir Richard Phillips and Co., London, 1822. EDMONSTONE, SIR ARCHIBALD, BART. 1822. “A Journey to Two of the Oases of Upper Egypt.” John Murray, London, 1822.