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SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF MAMMALIA. 



fur is also esteemed, — and the hamster-hunter, who 

 trades in the skins, usually opens the burrows after the 

 corn has been reaped, for the sake of obtaining the grain 

 which the hamster has accumulated. 



The Caffre Broad-eared Rat 



(^Euryotis xinisulcatus). 



This species of rat is a native of South Africa, whence 

 it was brought by M. Delalande. It forms the type of 

 the genus JEuryotis of Brands, to which title that of 

 Otomys, proposed by F. Cuvier, must give place. Dr. 

 A. Smith has appropriated the term Otomys to another 

 group of Rodents. In its dentition (Fig. 42) this ani- 



43.— Caffre Broad-eared Rat. 



