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black, and finally reddish. There are a few very 

 long white hairs on the loins inferiorly and laterally, 

 On the white parts, the hairs are of that colour from 

 the base ; on the bright-red intercrural part they 

 are for a short space at the base bluish. The ter 

 tninal rings of the tail have the hairs entirely black, 

 6ut the black hairs of the feet have their base 

 paler. 



The male here described was in length three 

 feet four inches, the head measuring five inches, 

 the neck and body twenty-one, and the tail fourteen. 

 A female, two feet six inches in length, the head 

 four inches, the neck and body seventeen, the tail 

 ten. The latter has the face brownish-grey, whitish 

 on the upper lip in front and over the eyes, at the 

 inner angle of which is a dusky band or patch. 

 The head and cheeks grey, the latter crossed by 

 two black lines, as in the male. The general colour 

 Df the fur is brownish-grey, but the markings are as 

 in the male, the belly less white, the limbs toward 

 the end and on the inner side yellowish-brown, and 

 the soles black. An individual killed in Stirlingshire 

 is of a yellowish : grey colour all over, not much lighter 

 on the abdomen, the ears, cheeks, and muzzle, light 

 yellowish-red, the throat and margins of the upper lips 

 white* The dark markings are as described in the 

 male, but of a browner tint ; there are two black 

 bands on the cheek, and nine rings on the tail, of 

 which four only are complete, the last or terminal 

 one two and a half inches long. All the long bris- 

 tles on the head are white, excepting two on the 



