MARMOTS. 



Alpine Marmots. 



Some of the species of Marmot eat flesh, as well as insects and grass. They have short legs and tails, 

 flattened heads, and pass the winter in a state of torpor, hiding themselves in holes, the mouths of which 

 they stop up by a quantity of hay. 



The Capromys is like an enormous rat, the size of a hare, and comes from Cuba, where, with the agouti, 

 it forms the principal game of the inhabitants. 



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Capromys. 



Common Rat. 



