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incr together, they form pale black perpendicular or 

 oblique running spiral lines, and here and there sin- 

 gle black points. The bristles of the back have light 

 ochre-yellow nearly saffron- coloured points, and form, 

 from the shoulders to the tail, a yellow streak, which 

 is darkest on the cross ; the nose black, and its back 

 ochre-yellow ; above the eye there is a large white 

 spot, and under it another of the same colour but 

 smaller. From the inner corner of the eye runs a black 

 streak as far as the nose. The labial edges are small, 

 have a black border, and are encircled above and be- 

 low by a fine white ring. The eyebrows, cheeks, and 

 bristles of the beard are white, and among the latter 

 there are a few shining black hairs. The inner sur- 

 face of the ear, towards the outside, is bordered bv 

 white and yellow tufts of hair ; the back of the ear is 

 grey-brown, the tops brown, and terminate with a 

 black tuft of hair half an inch long ; the cheeks, lower 

 jaw-bone, throat, neck, and chest, are ochre-yellow 

 coloured, the belly inclines to whitish-yellow with 

 darker spots. The outer side of the anterior and 

 posterior extremities have the same general colour of 

 the animal, as far down as the ankles, which are of 

 a dirty ochre-yellow colour and black behind, and 

 their surface presents four or more black cross-bands. 

 The inner side of the extremities is yellow, and on 

 the fore-legs is a round large black spot. The tail 

 measures one- fourth of the whole body, arid is of a 

 greyish colour ; its point is black and blunt ; towards 

 the point of the tail there are two black rings, lying 

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