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are black and bare, the latter smooth, the former slightly rough 

 and granular. The eyes are rather large, the irides very dark 

 brown, and the pupils vertical, sometimes linear, sometimes 

 oval. The ears are about four inches apart, pointed, usually 

 erect, moderately long, and covered outside with a little fine 

 reddish-white down, inside with the same, and the meatus audi- 

 torius exlimus partially crossed by a tuft of white hair, which 

 descends from the inside of the superior margin of the external 

 ear. 



The chin and sides of the under lip are blackish ; the begin- 

 ning of the throat a deep black ; and these two hues are separated 

 from each other, more or less completely, by a transverse oblique 

 band or white blotch. On the forehead, immediately over the 

 inner angle of each eye, are a few particularly long black hairs, 

 and some similar ones are observed about two inches behind the 

 organs just mentioned, only, however, rather a little below their 

 level. The latter issue from a thimble-like cavity formed by 

 the shorter hairs receding from each other, and another and a 

 similar appearance, nay even if any thing more distinct, occurs 

 about an inch behind the corner of the mouth, from which also 

 protrudes a small number of like black stift' hairs. The whiskers 

 are long, very strong, black, and disposed in three or four rows 

 on the sides of the upper lip a little behind the nostrils. The 

 hair on the neck and body is very long and shaggy, measuring 

 in many places, but particularly about the sides and back, at 

 least six inches. On the lateral parts of the neck, from the 

 temples to the anterior edge of the shoulders, the whole is of a 

 dirty tawny-white or dirty-yellow, which, with a little more 

 white, is nearly the colour of the breast, belly, and insides of 

 the extremities. Along the upper part of the neck, commencing 

 at the forehead, the hairs are rather longer than on the sides, 

 and of a tawny-white colour, slightly varied, however, by a 



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