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x. if owned of the spa" Moufe of Canada. Dipus Canadenfis. 
haat By Major General Thomas Davies, F.R. 8. and L. Se 
ot aby Read Fune 6, 1797. 
~ § I conceive there are very few perfons, however converfant 
with, Natural Hiftory, who may have feen or known there 
was an animal exifting in the coldeft parts of Canada, of the fame 
genus with the Jerboa, hitherto confined to the warmer climates 
of Europe and Africa; I take the liberty of laying before this 
Society the following obferyations (accompanied by a drawing) on 
an. animal of that kind, procured by myfelf in the neighbourhood 
of Quebec, during my laft refidence in that country. AsI do net 
recolleét to have feen this animal either figured or defcribed by any 
author in Natural Hiftory, 1 flatter myfelf, thefe obfervations may. 
Afford fome fatisfaétion to the Prefident and Members of the 
luinnzan Society. ,, The) {pecimens from which I made the draw- 
ing. are now in my sollediian. With refpe& to the food, or mode of 
feeding of this animal, I haye it notin my power to {peak with any 
degrée: of : certainty, . as I.could by.no,means procure any kind of 
fufténance that I could induce it to, eat; _ therefore, when caught, it 
only lived.a day anda half... The, fife J. was fo fortunate to catch 
was taken ina large field near the Falls of Montmorenci, and by its 
“IRON X 2 ! having 
