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with long white hair. Neck, above and below, bright rufous, with 

 a white crescent at the lower part, sixteen inches in its trans- 

 verse extent, two inches wide in the middle, and diminishing to a 

 point at each end. A median line on the neck above with dark 

 rufous hair, slightly elongated, and whorled at the lower part, the 

 hair very slightly longer and pointing upward. Below the 

 whorl for four inches and to first dorsal stripe, thin, long, dark 

 rufous hair mixed with a few black ones, two inches long, not 

 erect. Back with a very narrow white median line from between 

 the first dorsal stripes, or the middle of the shoulders, to witliin 

 three inches of the tail, mixed with a few dark hairs at its upper 

 portion. From the median line extend, on the right, fourteen white 

 stripes, and on the left fifteen, extending on both sides to within 

 three inches of the median line of the abdomen ; stripes about 

 half an inch in width, the first one over the fore legs, and that of 

 one side meeting the other ; below this seven stripes on the left 

 and six on the right, irregular, not opposite each other ; below 

 these again opposite each other to the last ; the last stripe but one 

 running down to the upper part of the hind-legs, and the last 

 extending down the back of the nates. Tail rounded, sixteen 

 inches long, thinly covered with rufous hair of the general color 

 of the body, ending in a tuft of longer hair of somewhat darker 

 rufous. From between the fore-legs to lower third of the abdo- 

 men on the median line, a patch of soft hair of purplish brown 

 color, four inches in its greatest width on either side ; on the 

 lower third of the abdomen, and between the hind-legs, the skin 

 is bare of hair, and of milk-white color, extending between the 

 legs, growing narrower to the anus. 



Fore-legs : upper part in front bright rufous, ending in a ring 

 behind. The front of the fore-leg below, blackish, mixed with 

 rufous extending to false hoofs, then interrupted by a white spot 

 an inch wide, and then again narrowly encircling the hoofs. The 

 posterior part of the fore-leg white, with the exception of the 

 rufous ring on the forearm and another on the middle of the 

 metatarsus, the latter of a darker color extending on the median 

 line quite to the true hoofs. Hind legs rufous behind and 

 blackish between the false and true hoofs, anterior surface white, 

 with a rufous ring just above the knee, and another ring mixed 

 with black at the point of the false hoofs; just. above the true 



