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stripe ; five dark dorsal stripes (outer often indistinct), rust}* um- 

 ber to sepia brown ; the two outer of each side separated by a 

 grayish-white stripe which is almost continuous anteriorly with 

 the white blotch behind the ear : the median and inner of each 

 side separated by a grayish stripe more or less obscured with 

 rusty ; rump grizzled gray sometimes tinged with brownish ; 

 sides pale fulvous to deep rusty fulvous, the color extending well 



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up on the neck, but never back over the hips ; under parts white 

 or soiled white; tail above sub-terete, almost black, with hoary 

 tips to the hairs and with more or less hazel showing through ; 

 tail below distichous, mesially bright hazel, heavily bordered 

 with black and edged with hoary. The facial stripes are highly 

 developed and are five in number, three rusty umber and two 

 white, as follows : A narrow white stripe runs from the tip of the 

 nose to the anterior base of the ear, passing over the eye ; it is 

 bordered above by a stripe of rusty umber (which is broadest 

 and darkest from the eye to the ear), and below by another of the 

 same color which passes through the eye and terminates at the 

 meatus ; below this is a second white stripe, broader than the 

 first, which runs just below the eye and thence backward under 

 the root of the ear, where it bends upward and backward, becom- 



