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body, giving the animal a shaggy appearance; ears 

 broad, oval ; head globular ; snout contracted, coni- 

 cal ; tail more than one-half the total length. 



Dimensions. Total length, from the tip of the 

 nose to the origin of the tail, five inches and five- 

 tenths ; length of the tail two-inches and seven- 

 tenths. 



Description. Body covered with rather long, 

 coarse hair, of a dark plumbeous colour for the 

 greater portion of its length next the skin, but 

 reddish or dusky brown, sometimes grayish at 

 the extremity, standing more or less obliquely 

 from the body, which occasions the plumbeous 

 colour of the inferior portion to show through in 

 some places, giving the animal a motley, shaggy 

 appearance ; beneath the throat of a dirty yellow- 

 ish-white ; belly ochreous-yellow, intermixed with 

 plumbeous; tail rather thickly invested with black- 

 ish-brown hair, lighter beneath ; head rather broad; 

 snout contracted, conical ; facial line arched ; ears 

 six-tenths of an inch broad, the same in height, 

 hairy within, sparsely hairy without ; coarse, stiff 

 hairs lining the anterior borders ; whiskers, nume- 

 rous, fine, long hairs, both black and white. 



Molar teeth rather oblong, deeply grooved at 

 their crowns, and marked by several transverse 

 curved lines of enamel; the grooves extending 

 nearly one-half the length of the sides of the bo- 

 dies ; the lower incisors rather shorter, the upper 

 rather longer than in the preceding species. 



