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white with a black tip ; others are wholly black. There are also 

 some bristles of the latter colour, forming a tuft above the eye, 

 and another between the eye and ear. 



The rigid hairs distributed amongst the scales of the tail are 

 reddish, except those towards the extremity which pass insen- 

 sibly into brown. 



The belly and chest are of a uniform dirty brownish grey. The 

 upper part of the feet is in general covered with a blackish brown 

 hair, interspersed with a few scattered, long, white hairs. The 

 older of the two individuals differs from the other, in having the 

 sides of the head, the under part of the neck, the chest and belly 

 of a whitish grey, and some very long hairs of this colour on the 

 upper surface of the feet. In other respects they are almost 

 exactly similar. 



DIMENSIONS. 



The older individual is the larger of the two by about one nintli. The 

 following are the measurements taken from the younger one. 



feet in. lines 

 Total length from the tip of the nose to the origin of the 



tail I 3 



Length of the head from the tip of the nose to the occiput. 3 3 



of the tail 6 



Height of the animal forwards 4 3 



behind 5 



Circumference of the muzzle below the eyes 4 



Circumference of the opening of the mouth 1 2 



Distance between the nostrils below 3^ 



Length of each nostril 3 



between the point of the nose and the anterior 



angle of the cje 1 8 



between the posterior angle of the eye and the 



base of the ear 9 



Vertical diameter of the eye 4 



Distance between the anterior angles of the eyes 1 3 



Circumference of the head, between the eyes and cars.. 5 6 



Length of the ears o II 



WidUi of the l)ase of the cars I .1 



Distance between the cars o I o 



Length of llic neck I 



