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like a squirrel ; and washed their faces with their 

 paws : they generally wandered about during the 

 day, and slept all night rolled up : their voice re- 

 sembled that of a bat. 



BARABA RAT. 



Mus Furunculus. M. buccis sacculiferis, corpore svpra grisea, 

 striga dorsali nigra, subtus albido. Lin. Svst. Nat, Gmel. p. 

 139. Pall. p. 273. 



Yellowish-grey pouched Rat, whitish beneath, with black dorsal 

 streak. 



Baraba Rat. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 213. 



THIS species, which inhabits the sandy plain of 

 Baraba, towards the river Ob, is about the same 

 length with the preceding, but the tail is much 

 longer, measuring near an inch : the snout is of 

 a sharper form, and the body more slender. It 

 is of a yellowish grey colour above, and white 

 beneath : along the back, from the neck almost 

 to the tail, runs a black stripe. Nothing parti- 

 cular is known of its way of life, the specimens 

 from which Dr. Pallas drew up his description, 

 having been taken running about the plain, and 

 their skins brought to him in a dried state. 



