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b. Above yellowish brown, beneath paler...... C. melanurus 391 
ec. Above dark reddish brown, beneath yellow- 
ish tinged with reddish posteriorly.......C. prehenstlis 391 
d. Above buffy black and ferrugineous; under 
parts bully Wie gee 6. cts. eee C. p. gundlacht 392 
e. Above brilliant yellowish red; grayish red 
Spot on backiogmmee <4. «tsa ecu s. ds mae C. elegans 392 
B. Tail short. 
a. Above mixed black and golden brown; be- 
neath. yellowistieee cick «iiss sans. Se C.-brownt 393 
b. Above blackish brown, chest white, belly 
yellowish gray cpg sie aks See sme C. thoracatus 394 
c. Above mixed yellowish brown, gray, and 
black; beneath pale yellowish brown..... C. ingrahamt 394 
Fic. Lil. CAPROMYS PILORIDES. HAIRY HUTIA. 
A. Capromys. 
407. pilorides (/sodon), Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1, 
1822, p. 333, fig. 
fourniert Desm., Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat., 1822, p. 43, pl. 1. 
guemt Fisch., Syn. Mamm., 1829, p. 312. 
Hairy Hurtta. 
Type locality. ‘“‘South America or one of the West Indian 
Islands.”’ Cuba? 
Geogr. Distr. Cuba. 
Genl. Char. Size large; tail long, sparsely haired; muzzle white. 
Coler. Variable; above reddish chestnut and black, the hairs 
being black, tipped with reddish chestnut, darkest on median line 
nd paler on the sides where the hairs are tipped with yellowish 
brown; nose and sides of head white, mixed with blackish and yel- 
