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Now the size given in the ‘ P. Z.S.’ above quoted is, “length, 22 inches 
from tip of nose to vent ; tail, ro} inches, exclusively of the hair, nearly 
half the length of the body and head.” ‘This agrees better with Mr. 
Blanford’s account. 
No. 312. ARcTOMYS HEMACHALANUS. 
The Eastern Red Marmot ( Jerdon’s No. 169). 
NaTIvE NaMEs.— Sammiong, Lepcha ; C/zpz, Bhotia. 
Hapirat.—The Eastern Himalayas, Sikim, Nepal. 
DESCRIPTION.—As given above by Dr. Jerdon. 
S1ze.—Head and body, 13 inches; tail, 5} inches. Hodgson kept 
some of this species in his garden for some time. They were somnolent 
by day, active by night, and did not hybernate in Nepal. They were 
fed on grain and fruit, and would chatter a good deal over their meals, 
but in general were silent. They slept rolled up into a ball, were tame 
and gentle usually, but sometimes bit and scratched like rabbits, uttering 
a similar cry. 
No. 313. ARCTOMYS AUREUS. 
The Golden Marmot. 
Haspitat.—Yarkand, Kaskasee pass, 13,000 feet, on the road from 
Kashgar to Sarikol and the Pamir. 
DESCRIPTION — after Blanford, who described and named this 
species (‘ Jour. As. Soc. Beng.’ 1875): ‘General colour tawny to rich 
brownish-yellow, the dorsal portion conspicuously tinged with black 
from all the hairs having black tips, but these are far more conspicuous 
in some specimens (males ?) than in others ; face grey to blackish, with 
a rufous tinge covered with black and whitish hairs mixed, about half 
an inch long on the forehead. The black hairs on the face are more 
prevalent in those specimens (perhaps males) which have the blackest 
backs ; the middle of the forehead is in some cases more fulvous. On 
the end of the nose is a blackish-brown patch, and there is a narrow 
band of black hairs with a few white mixed round the lips; the sides 
of the nose are paler ; whiskers black. Hairs of the back, 1} to 14 inches 
long, much mixed with woolly fibres, dark slaty at the extreme base for 
about a quarter inch, then pale straw colour, becoming deeper golden 
yellow towards the extremity, the end black. In the blackest specimens 
the black tips are wanting on the posterior portion of the back. Tail 
yellow, the same colour as the rump, except the tip, which is black, from 
a length varying from an inch to about 24 inches (in three specimens 
out of four it does not exceed an inch) ; hairs of the tail about two inches 
long, brown at the base. Lower parts rather browner, and sometimes 
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