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dual he had under his examination was only seven 

 and a half feet long ; its teeth corresponded with the 

 account given above, with this addition, that in one 

 specimen he had seen six molars in the lower jaw. 

 He adds, a tuberculous body like an inflated bladder, 

 keel-shaped in the middle, covered the anterior part 

 of the head, and so preserved the forehead. This 

 protuberance was confined to the males ; the females 

 and young having it quite rudimentary, fonir'ng a 

 slight projection on the part. Moreover, in addi- 

 tion to the true nostrils, the n ale had spurious tu- 

 berculous ones, sometimes single, and sometimes 

 double, according to their age. The mystach'.al bris- 

 tles were long, whitish, curled, compressed at their 

 base, and obtuse at the points. The eye was large and 

 black, with a brown iris ; there was no external auri- 

 cle, and the orifice was very small. The body of this 

 species is long and robust, covered with long some- 

 what erect hair, very woolly and thick underneath. 

 The fore-paw is somewhat in the form of a human 

 foot, the thumb corresponding to the great toe, and the 

 others gradually getting shorter. The colour varies 

 according to the age, being darkest in the aged : the 

 head, tail, and feet, are black, so are the other parts, 

 but spotted with grey spots, deepest, however, on the 

 back ; the younger are fairer ; during the first year 

 they are white, the upper part of the back being 

 slate grey; the second year they are snow while, 

 with a straight line of a brown colour on their 

 back. 



To this account of the accurate Fabricius, we 



