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fusely clothed with jet black hair ; but the male 

 had on the forehead a small round space, and on 

 the neck, close behind the ears, a broad one of 

 white, passing backwards to behind the shoulders, 

 where it divided into two, and terminated upon, or 

 just beyond the hips, in the form of the lower 

 limbs of a saltier ; the tail, when erect, caused the 

 long hairs to hang gracefully in curves like a military 

 feather, having, in the quantity of black, perhaps a 

 third of white hairs. The female had only two 

 short lengthy patches of white reaching from the 

 neck over each shoulder. The young, a male, had 

 a w r hite spot on the forehead, but on the back there 

 was a short streak half way down, on each shoulder 

 another, and between that and the central one, a 

 small oval of white. The other young was like the 

 mother. 



Comparing these with the Chinche of F. Cuvier, 

 we find the same colours similarly distributed on 

 the back, for there the white forms a kind of letter 

 A or V, according as the animal is viewed. There 

 is no white mark on the forehead, but one beneath 

 the root of the tail, which, further up, is entirely 

 black. 



Another Chinche, copied from the Paris Museum, 

 is still the same, but that the white comes over 

 the forehead to the nose, spreads laterally over the 

 thighs, and beneath under the throat, and occupies 

 the whole of the tail. This is like Buffon's figure ; 

 thus we find the bivirgate type to pervade most 

 of the descriptions left by travellers, and, practi- 



