142 ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 
yet noticed appears to be that seen by Pennant, who 
states its length at no less than sixteen inches from 
the nose to the extremity of its back. Its proportions 
are short and thickset; and the apparent clumsiness 
of its form is much increased by the manner mm which 
it usually contracts itself into a kind of ball. Its head 
is broad, flat, and rounded, with a slightly projecting 
and pointed muzzle, in which the nostrils are perforated 
laterally. Its eyes are large and perfectly orbicular, 
and furnished with transverse pupils capable of bemg 
entirely closed during the day, and of being very largely 
dilated at night: their inner canthus is situated so low 
towards the nose that the motion of the eyelids appears 
to take place in a diagonal, instead of a horizontal, 
direction. The ears are short, round, widely open, but 
buried in the fur; and the tail is merely a rudiment of 
a few lines in length. The hinder limbs are consider- 
ably longer than the fore. The whole of the body, 
with the exception of the muzzle and hands, is thickly 
invested with long, close, woolly hair of a deep ashy 
gray with something of a brownish tinge. A deep 
brown or chestnut band passes along the middle line of 
the back, and is accompanied on either side by a faint 
grayish stripe, expanding on the back of the head into 
a still lighter patch. The dark middle stripe divides on 
the head into two branches, each of which is again 
subdivided, the posterior division passing transversely 
across the forehead and enclosing the ear, the anterior 
crossing the eye obliquely and extending to the angle 
of the mouth. Between the two, above the outer angle 
of the eye, is a large white spot. Each of the eyes is 
surrounded by a ring of dusky black, between which a 
narrow white line passes from the back part of the 
head to the tip of the nose, which, with the exception 
of the naked muzzle, is also white. The latter, together 
with the naked parts of the hands, is of a livid flesh- 
