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the hinder half white. M. Lichtenstein describes them as nearly- 

 naked and thin. 



The thumbs of the fore feet are furnished with small blunt rudi- 

 mentary claws ; the hair of the back is thickly interspersed with long 

 taper-pointed black hairs. 



The cutting teeth are yellow, rounded, and without any grooves 

 in front and shelving at the point within; the grinders are ^;the 

 crown of the front upper is oblong longitudinal, and furnished with 

 three oblong transverse ridges, and three small rounded tubercles on 

 the inner side ; one opposite the inner edge of each of the larger 

 ridges ; the second upper has two oblong transverse ridges on the 

 outer side and three small tubercles on the inner ; the hinder upper 

 has two oblong transverse ridges extending over the whole width of 

 the tooth behind, and a small row of tubercles at the front inner 

 angle. The front lower grinder is formed of three, rather folded, 

 oblong, transverse ridges, the second and third tooth are each formed 

 of only two similar ridges, the ridges of the hinder tooth and espe- 

 cially the hinder ridge being the smallest. 



This description nearly agrees with that given by Lichtenstein, 

 but he supposes that one of the inner rounded tubercles of the upper 

 middle tooth belongs to the anterior one. Notwithstanding these 

 discrepancies between the description of the Berlin animal and the 

 one in our collection, I have no doubt that they are intended for the 

 same species, especially as Dr. Lhotsky informs me that the one 

 we have purchased is similar to that he sent to Berlin, which was 

 named Hapalotis albipes by Lichtenstein himself in the sale catalogue 

 p. V. lot 3. 



There is a specimen called a native rabbit in Mr. Caley's collection 

 in the Museum of the Linnsean Society, which exactly agrees with our 

 animal in all particulars, except that its ears are naked and semitrans- 

 parent as they are described by Professor Lichtenstein ; but from their 

 appearance I am inclined to believe that they have been accidentally 

 denuded, which is very probable, as the scarf skin on the ears of our 

 specimen appears to be very easily deciduous. The specimen in the 

 Linnsean Society's collection has been recently described by Mr. 

 Ogilby under the name of Conilurus constructor, Linn. Trans, xviii. 

 125, where that gentleman has given an interesting account of its 

 habits, extracted from the notes of Major Mitchell. The general 

 appearance of the animal so much resembles a Gerboa, that if it 

 were not for the great diiFerence in size given in Major Mitchell's 

 sketch, I should be inclined to believe that it is the animal which 

 this enterprising traveller iias figured in his work as a species of 



