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PLATE 



XLVL 



THE LONG-TOOTHED MARMOT. 



SIZE, 



NOSE, 



TEETH, 



HEAD, 



BODY, 

 EARS, 

 FEET, 

 TAIL, 

 PLACE, 



■one third larger than the figure. 



end black, the reft white. 



TWO FORE TEETH Very loiig, bare, fliarp, 

 pointing downwards, thofe of the lower 

 jaw pointing out horizontally, excavated on 

 the upper furface, of a great length, naked, 

 or always expofed. 



and CHEEKS black, on the hind part of the 

 HEAD a white fpot. 



a cinereous brown, lighteft on the belly, 



none external. 



long, toes flender, diftind:. 



fhort. 



the Cape of Good Hope to be ranked among 



THE MURES of LINNiEUS and THE MARMOTS 

 of M. PENNANT : THE TEETH of THE 

 PODOLIAN, PEN. SYN. QUAD. No. 204, rC- 



femble thofe of this animal : mentioned by 

 M. DE LA CAILLE Under the name des 



TAUPES FORT GROSSES. M. LEE, Ham- 



merfmith. 



