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since they have been kept in spirit, but plates II. and III. which 

 were made soon after their receipt, give a fair idea of the 

 original colour.* In two, the fawn changed to a darker and 

 somewhat rusty tint round the root of the tail, both on the 

 upper and under surface ; but this was scarcely marked in the 

 lighter coloured si^ecimens. Two also showed a distinctly darker 

 coloured patch on the back over the region of the pelvis. 



The shoulder, being brought forwards close up to the skull, 

 leaves no appearance externally of a neck, and the head together 

 with the front portion of the trunk, gradually widening from the 

 snout backwards to the shoulders, form a sort of blunt-ended 

 cone, which is flattened somewhat on its under surface and 

 directed downwards. This, with a curiously similar ventral 

 flexion of the posterior part of the trunk and tail, gives the whole 

 body a characteristically arched appearance, so that when placed 

 on a flat surface the snout, hands, feet, and tail are almost in the 

 same plane. 



The dorsal surface of the nose is covered with a hard horny 

 shield, marked by a transverse ridge which divides it into an upper 

 (posterior) and a lower (anterior) segment. Tlie front margin of this 

 shield bounds the external nares and is prolonged downwards on 

 on each side of these apertures ; it forms also the anterior border of 

 the septum narium which is continuous with a horny plate of a 

 similar texture, though less hard and horny, corresiDonding to 

 the upper lip. The fur extends right up to the margins of the 

 whole of this horny area; but immediately adjacent to its sides, and 

 especially margining the upper lij^, it is shorter, coarser, stifier 

 and of a lighter colour, approximating to the character of 

 whiskers. This has been a trifle exaggerated in pi. 11. , flg. 2, 

 iind insufliciently expressed in fig. 1. 



The nostrils looking downwards and forwards are wider in the 

 transverse than in the vertical direction, and are rendered very 

 irregular in outline from the encroachment of two processes from 

 the surrounding horny shield — one from the upper the other 

 from the outer margin. 



The mouth, ventral in position, has, when viewed from that 

 aspect, a contour represented by two sides of a slightly obtuse- 

 angled triangle. The extreme point of the chin is destitute of 

 hair, but on its under surface and margining the under lip there 

 are the same short stifl' hairs as on the upper lip. The tongue, 

 fleshy, broad at the base and tapering to a blunt point, is some- 

 what similar in shape to the human tongue, but relatively longer 

 ■and narrower. 



No eyes are visible externally, and the smallest opening 



* Plate III. does this more accurately than Plate II., m which latter the 

 colour is represented as too uniformly golden, as well as a shade too dark. 



