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b. Above yellowish brown, beneath paler...... C. melanurus 391 
c. Above dark reddish brown, beneath yellow- 
ish tinged with reddish posteriorly.......C. prehensilis 391 
d. Above buffy black and ferrugineous; under 
pants. oliiiyawihtte A> uae meee eee C. p. gundlacht 392 
e. Above brilliant yellowish red; grayish red 
Spot OM DACkKs ja kt sense ap omhe ots tere eanerere C. elegans 392 
B. Tail short. 
a. Above mixed black and golden brown; be- 
meath. yellowish. eg (sce <a he ee C. brownt 393 
b. Above blackish brown, chest white, belly 
yellowish: orayocn st. fincas oe eee C. thoracatus 394 
c. Above mixed yellowish brown, gray, and 
black; beneath pale yellowish brown..... C. ingrahami 394 
Fic. LIl. CAPROMYS PILORIDES. HAIRY HUTIA. 
A. Capromys. 
407. pilorides (Jsodon), Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1, 
EO22. Osun tee 
fourniert Desm., Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat., 1822, p. 43, pl. I. 
quem Fisch., Syn. Mamm., 1829, p. 312. 
Hairy Hotta. 
Type locality. ‘‘South America or one of the West Indian 
Islands.’’ Cuba? 
Geogr. Distr. Cuba. 
Genl. Char. Size large; tail long, sparsely haired; muzzle white. 
Color. Variable; above reddish chestnut and black, the hairs 
being black, tipped with reddish chestnut, darkest on median line 
and paler on the sides where the hairs are tipped with yellowish 
brown; nose and sides of head white, mixed with blackish and yel- 
