464. Dr. Smitu’s Description of two Quadrupeds 
partial intermixture of a black or blackish-brown sort. A dirty 
tawny-white, or rather tawny-gray, occurs also on the back and 
sides, but is in those places less distinctly observed in conse- 
quence of the number of large irregular blackish spots, or trans- 
verse oblique stripes, which in some specimens are of so great a 
size and so closely set that their colour may be considered as the 
ground one, and the lighter hues only as variegations. "The root 
of the tail is a dirty tawny, and the tip, or indeed the greater 
part of its length, bushy and black, with a slight intermixture of 
white hairs, and the whole measuring about eight inches in 
length. Outsides of the legs dirty-white crossed by a number. 
of narrow nearly straight deep black bands, which are regularly 
wanting on the insides. Feet dirty-white and without variega- 
tions, each with four toes, and each toe with a short strong 
claw. 
From an early age, the great length of the hair formed a 
very striking feature in the appearance of the captive speci- 
men; yet I nevertheless felt inclined to view it as an example 
of the common striped species, and was disposed to attribute 
for a time the length of the covering to the circumstance of the 
animal's confinement. Recent examinations, however, of seve- 
ral others of a similar description, all of which had passed their 
early, and some of their mature, years in a state of nature, have 
proved, that the peculiarity alluded to did not depend upon the 
change of situation, but was common to. it under all circum- 
stances, and therefore with other characters has led me to regard 
it as a distinct species *, | 
-In its manners, habits, and disposition, it agrees with the 
spotted sort; but from an inferiority of physical powers it is a 
* [ have no means of ascertaining the H. fusca of Geoffroy St. Hilaire: at any 
rate the description of that species does not correspond with ours. 
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