584 Mr. Sabine's Account 



figured by Edwards having been brought from that province to 

 Sir Hans Sloane. Pennant referred to and adopted the accounts 

 of Catesby as well as of Edwards. 



Buffon at first confounded the Monax with the Marmot of the 

 Alps. In the Supplement to his Histoire Naturelle he corrected 

 this mistake, but still treated it only as a variety of that species. 

 In his account of it in both instances he got into error, supposing 

 it to be the Siffleur of Canada, which is the next species. Buf- 

 fon' s figure is said to be from a drawing sent him by Collinson; 

 but it has so strong a resemblance to Edwards's figure, that it 

 might be supposed to have been designed from that engrav- 

 ing, though the colour has more accordance with the figure of 

 Catesby. 



Schreber's figure is copied from that of Buffon ; but in the 

 colouring he has followed Edwards. Bewick's figure is copied 

 from Edwards. 



Arctomys Empetra. Quebec Marmot. 



2. A. capite auriculato, rostro obtuso, cauda mediocri, corpore 



supra vario, subtus castaneo. 

 Quebec Marmot. Venn. Syn. Quad. 270. pi. 24. fig. 2. 



Forster in Phil. Trans, vol. lxii. 378. Phil. Trans. Abr. xiii. 



329- Penn. Hist. Quad. ii. 397- pL 41. 2.~edit. 3. ii. 129. 



pi. 74. 1. Penn. Arct. Zool. i. 111. Bewick's Quad. edit. 1. 



346. cum figura. — edit. 2. 369- cum figura. Shaw's Zool. iii. 



119- 

 Glis Canadensis. Erxl. Syst. Reg. Anim. 363. 

 Mus Empetra. Pallas Glir. 75. 

 Arctomys Empetra. Schreb. Quad. 743. pi. 210. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. i. 143. Turton Syst. Nat. 1. 89. 

 Marmotte de Quebec. Desmarest in Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xix. 



314. 



Length 



