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SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF MAMMALIA. 



body is mole-shaped and covered with close fur, the 

 limbs are short and thick, with strong short claws. The 

 head is broad and flat, with a lateral margin or ridge 

 running from the great naked nose to the ears, and indi- 

 cated by a line of white stiff hairs. Breadth of head 

 across, 2| inches ; length the same. Total length eleven 

 inches. Tail wanting. Teeth white : general colour 

 pale sandy ash-gray ; the hairs pale lead-colour at the 

 base. The specimen from which these notes were made 

 (in the Paris Museum) was brought from Russia (" le 

 ])ays des Cosaques du Donn ") : a second specimen, from 

 Syria, was smaller ; eight and a half inches long, with 

 bright orange teeth, and the lateral ridge of the head 

 not fringed with white hairs ; its colour also was darker. 

 (Fig. 52.) 





62.— Mole-Rat. 



