ii5 O? AN AMERICAN SPECIE3 



The head, the back, and the whole upper part cf the 

 body, are of a rcddifh-brcwn colour, fomewhat inclining 

 to yellow. The back is marked by a darker brown than 

 the other parts. The whole under fide of the body, 

 beginning with the upper jaw, and ending at the anus, 

 is of a cream colour; as are, likewife, the inhdes of the 

 fore-legs, or arms, and the infides of the hind-legs. 



A yellow ftreak, or band, beginning near the lower 

 part of the nolirils, on each fide, runs along the v/hole 

 length of the head and neck, the upper and under fide 

 of the fore legs, from thence all along the body, termi- 

 nating with the thighs, at the joint. 



The tail is confiderably longer than the body, gra- 

 dually tapers from its origin, and is finely ciliated, or 

 lightly covered with hairs, its whole length. It ends in 

 a fine pencil of hairs. The upper fide is of a flate-brown 

 colour, the under fide is of a yellowiili-cream colour. 

 It is compofed of a great number of joints. 



From the defcription which 1 have given of this animal, 

 it will appear that it is very clofely ahied to the Dipus 

 Hudfonius of Profelfor Zimmermann*; or the Labrador- 

 Rat of Mr. Pennant -f. With this animal it agrees in 

 fize, in the relative proportions of the body and the tail, 

 in the number of toes, or fingers, on the fore legs, and 

 in the general colour, as well as in the circumftance of 

 the yellow band, or line. Neither of the defcriptions 

 given by my two learned friends, juft mentioned, are fo 

 minute as to enable me to purfue the comparifon farther. 

 It does not appear, from Mr. Pennant's defcription, 

 what is the number of toes on the hind legs of his La- 



* See his Geographifche Gefchichte des Menfchen, und der allgemein 

 verbreiteten vierfuefigen thiere, &c. fweiter band. p. 358. Leipfig : 1780. 

 odlavo. 



f See his Hiftory of Quadrupeds, vol. 2. p. 173 & 174. The third 

 edition. Alfo his AnSic Zoology, vol, i. p. 153 & 154. London; 

 1792. 



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