160 . FAUNA AMERICANA. 



Species. 



3. Arctomys empetra, Gmel. Schreb. tab. 210. 

 Quebec Marmot^ Penn. Quad. p. 270. n. 199. tab. 

 24. fig. 2. 



Glis canadensis^ Erxleb. Mus empetra, Pall. 

 (Encycl. pi. 67. fig. 4. under the name of Mar- 

 motte du Canada.) 



Char. Essent. Colour blackish-brown, spotted 

 with white above ; ferruginous-red beneath ; tail 

 short, blackish at the end. 



Dimensions. Total length eleven inches; of the 

 tail two inches. 



Description. Colour blackish-brown, spotted 

 with white above, which is owing to the hairs of 

 this part being blackish at their base, then annu- 

 lated with white, and terminated with black; top 

 of the head of a uniform brown, passing into red- 

 dish-brown on the occiput, and to black on the 

 end of the snout; cheeks and chin of a dirty gray- 

 ish-white; breast and fore paws red; feet black; 

 tail rather short, with abundant black hairs; a 

 varietj^ has only the reddish teint less lively. 



Habit. Unknown. 



Inhabit Canada and the environs of Hudson's 

 Bay. 



Species. 



3. Arctomys hidoviciatii, Ord, Guthrie's Geog. 

 v. ii. p. 302, I8ir>. Say, Exped. to the Rocky 



