MARMOTA 931 



buffy white, the spots roundish, vai^ying from 2 to 5 mm. in 

 diameter, those on middle of back smallest and most distinct, 

 those at sides larger and tending to become confluent. Sides 

 pale cream-bufF with faint dark shading, this colour passing 

 rather abruptly into bright buff of chest, belly, and inner 

 surface of hind legs. Chin, throat, and under side of neck as 

 far as fore legs like sides but still paler, rather sharply con- 

 trasted with colour of belly. Muzzle, cheeks, eye-ring (about 

 2 mm. wide) and ill defined area extending behind eye nearly to 

 ear, cream-buff. Crown and stripe 5 mm. wide below eye russet 

 sprinkled with cream-buff. Feet pale cream-bufl*; heel and 

 ankle clear russet. Tail a dull butfy russet below, fringed with 

 cream-buff, a grizzle of blackish and cream-bufF above. 



Shdl and teeth. — The only skull examined is imperfect. It 

 is smaller than that of C. ritellus, and apjiarently less deep at 

 middle, though dorsal profile is similarly convex throughout. 

 Rostrum narrower and not so deep as in C. ciielliis, but not 

 peculiar in form. Incisive foramina reduced to mere slits barely 

 5 mm. in width, and so short that their length is scarcely equal 

 to diameter of alveolus of upper incisor. Palate and interorbital 

 region narrower than in C. citeUus, but interorbital breadth 

 greater than breadth of rostrum. Mandible smaller and less 

 robust than that of the related species but not peculiar in form. 

 The teeth do not differ appreciably from those of C. citeUus. 



Measurements. — Adult female from Galicia, Hungary (from 

 well-made skin) : head and body, 200 ; tail, 40 ; hind foot, 32 ; 

 ear, 7. For cranial measurements see Table opposite. 



Specimen examined. — One, from Galicia, Hungary. 



1. Galicia; Hungary. Purchased (Pruliere). 86.4.2.2. 



Genus MARMOTA Blumenbach. 



1777. Glis Erxleben, Syst. Regni Anim., i, p. 358 (part). Not Glis Brisson, 

 1762. 



1779. Marmota Blumenbach, Handb. der Naturgesch., i, p. 79 {alpina = 



marmota). 



1780. Arctomys Schreber, Saugethiere, pi. ccvii [alpina = marmota). 

 1780. Lagomys Storr, Prodr. Meth. Mamm., p. 39 (Renaming of Arctomys). 

 1811. Lipura Illiger, Prodr. Syst. Mam. et Avium, p. 95 {liudsonius = 



mo7iax). 



1857. Arctomys Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 278. 



1904. Marmota Trouessart, Catal. Mamm. Viv. Foss., Suppl., p. 343. 

 Frisch (Natursystem der vierfiiss. Thiere, 1775, p. 9), cited as 

 authority, but this writer not binary (see Thomas and Miller, 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., xvi, pp. 461-464, October, 

 1905). 



Ty2)e specific. — Martiiota alpina 151ume:abach = 7lf«.s' maniiota 

 Linnajus. 



Geographical distribution. — Northern Hemisphere from the 



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