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teeth, and have only four incisives. The snout 

 is short, broad, and obtuse ; a number of stiff 

 hairs extend from side to side, and form long 

 whiskers. The nose is naked, white, and carti- 

 laginous : the eyes, large and prominent, have 

 the uis brown ; the ears are long, large, and co- 

 vered with hair so short, that unless you look at 

 it close, you would suppose them naked. Ex- 

 ternally, they* are white in the lower part, and 

 gray through the rest of their length : their in- 

 side, as well as the sides of the head, are of a very 

 clear pale red, with a mixture of gray and 

 blackish ; they entirely surround, for about a third 

 of their length, the auditory passage, so that they 

 represent exactly the upper part of a paper cornet. 

 This conformation must increase, in animals, the 

 faculty of hearing, and, above all, guard the inte- 

 rior of the organ against extraneous substances 

 which might otherwise find admission. 



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The body is longish, broader behind than before, 

 and well clothed with hair, long, soft, and silky. 

 That which covers the upper part and the sides of 

 the body is ash coloured almost the whole length 

 through, and of a clear pale red toward the point, 

 which is blackish : but as the ashy part is not ap- 

 parent, it may be said that the fleerycoat is a clear 

 pale red, and variegated with blackish lines run- 

 ning zig-zag. These tints, somewhat dark, con- 

 trast 



